It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.