To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

There is no god higher than truth.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.