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When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.
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What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
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I think it would be an excellent idea.
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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
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A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
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The true source of rights is duty.
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Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
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The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
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A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
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Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.