The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.