Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.