Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.