What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

The best politics is right action.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.