I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.