Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

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.