You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.