My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.