The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.