It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

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

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.