Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.