Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

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

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.