A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

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.