Faith is the function of the heart.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?