No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.