Well, India is a country of nonsense

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths

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.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest