...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.