It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.