I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.