A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

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 If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity.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voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.