All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.