Indian independence activist and leader who played a key role in the peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Self-respect knows no considerations.