Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.