They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat