"I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth."
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"I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth."
"I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment."
"I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations."
"In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village."
"In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?"
"Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge."
"India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages."
"India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise."
"In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay."
"Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked."
"Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony."
"Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms."
"Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge."
"Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support."
"One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God."
"Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances."
"Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built."
"Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly."
"My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths."
"My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it."