Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.