Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man