Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.