I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.