A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

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.