H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.