India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

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

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.