We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

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

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.