“The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.”

“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.”

“Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.”

“No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.”

“A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.”

“If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.”

“The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.”

“The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.”