Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.