A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

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?

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.