Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.