If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj