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

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

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

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.