Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists..

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong..

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly..

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures..

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen..

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property..

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence..

I have no weapon but nonviolence..

God comes to the hungry in the form of food..

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse..

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time..

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation..

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor..

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing o….

There is no god greater than truth..

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed..

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence..

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason..

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties..