The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

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