All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Idleness is the great plague of India.