I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.