A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.