Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.