We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.