People cannot hurt you without your permission.

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

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.