It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.