I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.