Idleness is the great plague of India.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.