For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.