Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.