A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Live simply that others might simply live.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.