Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

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.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.