The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.