The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.