Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.