God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

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.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.