I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.