Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.