A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.
Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India’s just cause.
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.