The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.