I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.