An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.