Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

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.