You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

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.

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