The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.