It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Be the change that you want to see.

Make injustice visible.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Full effort is full victory.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

The path is the goal.