True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.