A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.