A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.