Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.