The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

The true battlefield is within.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.