To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.