I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.