A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.