True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.