No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.