“For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.”

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent.

Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority which one man has, to control the liberty of another.

Self-respect is the most vital factor in life.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom.

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.

The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.

Religion is for man and not man for religion.

To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties.

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.