The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

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.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.