Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.