Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.