If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.