The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.