My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

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

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

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 commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.