The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.