The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Faith is the function of the heart.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.