It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.