You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.