Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.