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

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

In the midst of death life persists.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.