Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.