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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
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Love never claims, it ever gives.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
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The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
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My religion teaches me to love all equally.