Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?