If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.