The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.