Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep...

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Great causes and little men go ill together

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

When?

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a...

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Socialism is . . . not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Its [Communism’s] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain...

Socialism is… not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight...

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to...

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

What we need is a generation of peace.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not...

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country...

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

The Russians have been so sweet to me,

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind....

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes open.