If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.