Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole