Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

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