I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.