A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.