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.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.