The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India’s future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.
It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
Idleness is the great plague of India.
Mass illiteracy is India’s sin and shame and must be liquidated.
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.