It is not that when one man resigns nobody will be found to take his place.

But if you create this spirit in the country the Government service will gradually imbibe this spirit, and a whole office may go on strike.

That does not put an end to the administration, but it creates endless complications in the work of administration, and if these complications are created in every part of the country, the administration will have been brought to a deadlock and made none the less impossible, for the primary thing is the prestige of the Government and the boycott strikes at the root of that prestige....

We can reduce every Indian in Government service to the position of a man who has fallen from the dignity of Indian citizenship....
No man shall receive social honours because he is a Hakim or a Munsiff or a Huzur Sheristadar....

No law can compel one to give a chair to a man who comes to his house.