Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.