For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.