Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.
The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.
Never make a promise in haste.
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.