India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.