In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.