A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.