The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.