I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

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

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.