Self-respect knows no considerations.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.