To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.