My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.