If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm..

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong..

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself..

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization..

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality..

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive..

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves..

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence….

Speak only if it improves upon the silence..

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind..

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society..

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British..

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom..

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators..

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted..

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible..

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation..

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners..

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of tru….

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent..

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from..