I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.
What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the ‘voice within’ tells you.
The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
You can’t shake hands with a closed fist.
I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
My commitment is to truth not consistency.
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.