We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.