Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.