Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.