Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.