My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

He who would sacrifice his life for others has hardly time to reserve for himself a place in the sun.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

Terrorism set up by reformers may be just as bad as Government terrorism, and it is often worse because it draws a certain amount of false sympathy.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

In the midst of death life persists.

Men may be good in some respects, not necessarily, therefore, in all. A man who is an authority on one matter is not therefore an authority on all matters.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains (to all Brits), and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Nonviolence is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be.

Nonviolence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

One, who abandons all desires, is free from pride and selfishness and behaves as one apart, finds peace.

It’s my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Faith must be enforced by reason when faith becomes blind it dies.

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything – yesterday and tomorrow.

The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

There is no ‘way to peace’, there is only ‘peace’.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Truth is one, paths are many.

Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. He who is discontented, however much he possesses, becomes a slave to his desires.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

My life is my message.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall – think of it, always.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

All of India is my family.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.

Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Silence is the best answer to anger.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Where there is love there is life.

You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Relationships are based on four principles – respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

I remain an optimist because of my unflinching faith that right must prosper in the end.

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

Change yourself – you are in control.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses.

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

We need not wait to see what others do.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Where love is, there God is also.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other is by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

The future depends on what you do today.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.