The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.