Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.