Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.