Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.