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

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.