“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.”

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march.

Revolution’ does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By ‘Revolution’ we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.

Life is lived on its ownother’s shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.

By crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

You were deafened by your own bewailing that you couldn’t hear love knocking on your door.

We listen less often because the sound of silence is deafening to us.

I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.