The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

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

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.