The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.