All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.