The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.