I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.