The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.