My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

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.

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.

Those who believe religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

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

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim’s progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.(Young India 1924-1926)

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

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.”(Young India, 22 October 1925)

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else...

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

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): ‘I think it would be a good idea.

Gracias a que se mantienen unidas y se mueven de manera conjunta milloners de gotas forman el mar, lo mismo debería ocurrir con los seres humanos

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your...

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Um homem não pode fazer o certo numa área da vida, enquanto está ocupado em fazer o errado em outra. A vida é um todo indivisível.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

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

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Where there is love there is life.

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

Selfishness is blind.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

It is man’s social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

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

I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

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

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Be the change you want to see

There are seven things that will destroy us:Wealth without work;Pleasure without conscience;Knowledge without character;Religion without sacrifice;Politics without principle;Science without humanity;Business without ethics.

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

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