It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

What we can do, we will try to do.