If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.