I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.