After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one