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.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.