At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.