The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.