Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.