The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.