If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.