The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.