A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.