Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

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

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.