Truth is the right designation of God.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

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.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.