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

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

The good man is the friend of all living things.