Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.