If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

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

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.