A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.