Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.