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?

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.