Silence is argument carried out by other means.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.