You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body but you will never imprison my mind.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Honest disagreements are often a good sign of progress.
Nonviolence and truth are inseperable and presuppose one another.
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Whatever you do is insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.