Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.