If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.