There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.