Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

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

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

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.