Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.

We have to be the change we want in the world.

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.