For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.