The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.