Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.