My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
I once killed a man for snoring too loudly.
But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.