Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.