If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

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

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.