Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.