The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.