India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.