There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.