My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.