On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.