The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.