Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.