Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.