Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.