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

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.