You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
The world is big enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyone’s greed.
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.