A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition..

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time..

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero..

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for..

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him..

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force..

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God..

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization..

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages..

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff..

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves..

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence..

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today..

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law ….

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life..

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide..

The true source of rights is duty..

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it..

Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or f….

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insect….