We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator..

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different..

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals..

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac..

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible fro….

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies..

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with s….

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature..

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil..

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu..

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to Go….

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness..

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings..

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit..

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason..

Art to be art must soothe..

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart..

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God..

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts..

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it..

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death….