Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.