"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."

"I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption."

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

"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian."

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

"Life is but an endless series of experiments."

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

"I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth."

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

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him."

"What barrier is there that love cannot break?"

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

"In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth."

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

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

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

"Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint."

"The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber."

"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."

"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."

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."

"True beauty consists of purity of heart."

"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."

"Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex."

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

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

"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."

"I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality."

"Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep."

"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"

"True beauty lies in purity of the heart."

"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter."

"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."

"Where there is love there is life."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

"Where love is, there God is also."

"Truth is one, paths are many."

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always."

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

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite."

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature."

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