Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.