Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

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.

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.