Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
Those who believe religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either.
Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country’s freedom.
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
Non-co-operation is the nation’s notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.