Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.