Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.