A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

War knows no law except that of might.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.