Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.