If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

Means are ends in the making

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.