If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.