My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.