I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

The path is the goal.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

What we can do, we will try to do.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.