We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.