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.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.