Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.