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.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

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

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.