He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.