The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.