Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.