Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.