Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.