Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.