I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.