Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.