If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.