Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.