Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.