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!

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.