I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.