Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.