The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.