There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.