Good government is no substitute for self-government.
The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.
