No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

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.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.