I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.