Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.