Morality is contraband in war.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.