Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.