Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.