A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.