I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

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.