“I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher”
“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”
“Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.”
“The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.”
“My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.”
“A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.”
“Good government is no substitute for self-government.”
“I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.”
“The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.”
“Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.”
“Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.”
“The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.”
“In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.”
“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
“It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.”
“No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.”
“If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.”
“Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.”
“Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.”
“It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.”
“No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.”
“To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.”
“I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.”
“Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
