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Nothing is of a permanent nature.
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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
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All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
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I think it would be a good idea.
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.