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

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.