A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.