If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

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

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.