I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.