The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.