A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible