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.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.