Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.