Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.