If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

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

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.