I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.