I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.