Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Man does not live by destruction.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.