Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.