It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?