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

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

The best politics is right action.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.