It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Morality is contraband in war.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.