My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.