Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

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.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

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.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.