If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.