Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.