Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.