Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.