I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.