Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.