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.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.