Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.