My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

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?