Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.