God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.