Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.