Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
Adversity is the mother of progress.
It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.