Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.