Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.