A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
I shall die, but I will not kill.
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don’t have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
Don’t talk about it. The rose doesn’t have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
We don’t use guns because we don’t have guns.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
Patience means self-suffering.
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
It is the law of love that rules mankind.
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.