Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.