Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.