Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.