Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc. ; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights. . . a doctrine revoltinggrossbarbarous. . . on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.
