No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.