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

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.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

A safe army is better than a safe border.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.

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

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind.

Victory is always with economics.

Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible.

One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man.