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.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.