If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.