“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.

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.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of fire arms may find that information and skill of great importance.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.