I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.