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.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.