Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.
Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.