To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.