The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

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.