If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism..

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life..

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music..

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land..

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of ….

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists..

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow..

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth..

In a gentle way, you can shake the world..

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal..

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin..

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common fl….

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts..

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without r….

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian..

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures..

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent..

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life ….