A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.