Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.