True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

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.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.