The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

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.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.