In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

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

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion