Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.