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

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.