If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.