But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

The path is the goal.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.