No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.