Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.