The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.