I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.