My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.