If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.