The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

God is not in strength but in truth.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.