If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.