I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.