Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.