Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

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.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.