Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.