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

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.

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.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

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

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note: “I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants. ” So I wrote back: “Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I’m not cutting off three inches for anyone.

The undertakings enter unto (“les engagements contractés”, Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly (“éventuellement”, Fr.) in another.

Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

[On her recently widowed father’s much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.