I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.