Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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.
Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.
Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
The real meaning of economic equality is “To each according to his need.”
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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.
The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.