We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.