Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.