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.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.