What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.