Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Morality is contraband in war.
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.