“In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.”

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society.

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

Life should be great rather than long.

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one’s self-respect.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

A feeling deliciously bitter lingers on my tongue. It’s sharp relish urges me to keep my mouth shut and my conscience clear. Though how can one act so when one’s veins are stuffed with what’s not said before?

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

All a man can betray is his conscience.