I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion..

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man..

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways..

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India..

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pu….

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather..

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious..

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by tho….

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature..

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly..

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all….

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village..

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation..

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry..

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights..

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man..

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers..

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves..

Religions are different roads converging to the same point..

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them..

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near..