If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.