“Le Mahatma Gandhi, que j'admire beaucoup, a dit : "Si tu rends oeil pour oeil, le monde deviendra aveugle." Je voudrais, quant à moi, dessiller les yeux des hommes plutôt qu'augmenter leur cécité ou leur indifférence devant les injustices.”

“Everyone holds a piece of the truth.”

“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”

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

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.”

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”

“But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”

“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” 

“kekalahan tak bisa mengecilkan hatiku” 

“The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.”

“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”

“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”

“masses follow the classes.”