We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.