A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.