An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.