The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.