... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.