The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.