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.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.