There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.