All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.