Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.