It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.