I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

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

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Hate the sin and love the sinner. Traditional saying - not first said by him.

Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Opening words of speech in defense trial, 1922.