You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher..

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer..

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too..

The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to….

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war..

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience..

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they str….

God has no religion..

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it..

The sole aim of journalism should be service..

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time th….

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years..

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. A….

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout..

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed..

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be ….

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals..

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike..

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers..

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is ….

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it..