But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.