To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.