There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.