"The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners."
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"The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners."
"I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India."
"The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion."
"No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it."
"The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel."
"Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy."
"Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust."
"The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence."
"Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?"
"Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom."
"Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law."
"The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection."
"Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow."
"Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution."
"Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain."
"Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive."
"The cow is the purest type of sub-human life."
"The cow to me is a sermon on pity."
"Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them."
"Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise."