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

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.