Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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