A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.