If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.