In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.