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

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?