As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

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

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.