If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

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.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.