To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.