Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

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