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

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words..

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that ch….

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife..

Concentrate on your task..

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necess….

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone..

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj..

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India..

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured..

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of tha….

To know music is to transfer it to life..

Eye for eye and the world will go blind..

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money..

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation..

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English..

The soul of India lives in its villages..

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow..

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the nam….

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood..