it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.