Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.