Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.