My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.