A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.