What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.