Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.