India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

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.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.