The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?