The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.