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.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.