To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

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.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.