A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.