The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.