Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.