Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.