The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

There is no god higher than truth.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?