Peace is its own reward.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.