When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

God has no religion.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.