For the poor, the economic is spiritual..

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal..

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death..

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin..

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life..

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent..

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Your action expresses your priorities..

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow..

The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves..

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones..

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed..

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit..

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly..

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace..

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood..

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence..

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would e….

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo..

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen..