Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.