Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

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

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.