Under Democracy, Individual Liberty Of Opinion And

It Is Quite Proper To Resist And Attack A System, But To Resist And Attack Its Author Is Tantamount To Resisting And Attacking Oneself, For We Are All Tarred With The Same Brush, And Are Children Of One And The Same Creator, And As Such The Divine Powers Within Us Are Infinite. To Slight A Single Human Being, Is To Slight Those Divine Powers And Thus To Harm Not Only That Being, But With Him, The Whole World.

Spiritually, Compulsory Disarmament Has Made Us Unmanly, And The Presence Of An Alien Army Of Occupation, Employed With Deadly Effect To Crush In Us The Spirit Of Resistance, Has Made Us Think We Cannot Look After Ourselves Or Put Up A Defense Against Foreign Aggression, Or Even Defend Our Homes And Families.

A Dissolute Character Is More Dissolute In Thought Than In Deed. And The Same Is True Of Violence. Our Violence In Word And Deed Is But A Feeble Echo Of The Surging Violence Of Thought In Us.

The Mentality Which Made One Section Of The Indians Look Upon Another As Enemies Was Suicidal; It Could Only Serve To Perpetuate Their Slavery.

God Forbid That India Should Ever Take To Industrialism After The Manner Of The West... Keeping The World In Chains. If [our Nation] Took To Similar Economic Exploitation, It Would Strip The World Bare Like Locusts.