The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

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.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

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.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.