That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.