Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.