A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.