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.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.