No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.