Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.