If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.