To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.