The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

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?

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.