The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.