To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

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.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.