Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood….

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible..

Selfishness is blind..

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after know….

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved..

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization..

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitatio….

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj..

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy..

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff..

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood th….

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or a….

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act..

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way..

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution..

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also..

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth..

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive..

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice..

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently..

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth..