Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.