A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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.
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
