The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

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