Labour is priceless, not gold.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

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

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.