The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.