It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.