The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.