An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.