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

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.

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.

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.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, “we’ve never had a democrat in the family before”.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

The motive power of democracy is love.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.