“The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.”
“Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.”
“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”
“I shall die, but I will not kill.”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.”
“I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!”
“National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.”
“There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.”
“My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.”
“The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.”
“Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.”
“If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.”
“Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.”
“It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.”
“Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.”
“Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.”
“My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.”
“A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.”
“My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.”
“There is no path to peace; peace is the path.”
“The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.”
“Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.”
“Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.”
“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”
“It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”
