A danger forseen is half avoided.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.