The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.