It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.