To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.