Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

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

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.