True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

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.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.