I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.