If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.