Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.