I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.
All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
Fear gone, there can be no hatred.
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.