If, as may happen, India and Britain finally settle down into a decent and friendly relationship, will this be partly because Gandhi, by keeping up his struggle obstinately and without hatred, disinfected the political air? That one even thinks of asking such questions indicates his stature. One may feel, as I do, a sort of aesthetic distaste for Gandhi, one may reject the claims of sainthood made on his behalf (he never made any such claim himself, by the way), one may also reject sainthood as an ideal and therefore feel that Gandhi's basic aims were anti-human and reactionary: but regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!

The British did get out of India without fighting, an event which very few observers indeed would have predicted until about a year before it happened.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

One feels of him that there was much he did not understand, but not that there was anything that he was frightened of saying or thinking. I have never been abl…

In Gandhi's case the questions one feels inclined to ask are: to what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity - by the consciousness of himself as a humble, naked ol…

I don't want a fuckin' hooligan as my governor, I don't care if he's a billionaire. And he says things like, 'I want the children of California to have a wonde…

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.