The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.