If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.