I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.