The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.