Each one prays to God according to his own light.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.