“Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.”
“If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.”
“Be the change you are trying to create.”
“World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.”
“We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.”
“Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.”
“Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.”
“True beauty lies in purity of the heart.”
“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”
“Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.”
“If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.”
“All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.”
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
“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.”
“Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.”
“Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.”
“We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.”
“War knows no law except that of might.”
“I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.”
“It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”
“I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.”
“Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.”
“In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.”
