Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.