I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.