“The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.”

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.

By crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

Force when aggressively applied is “violence” and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.

The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,

Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle, we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.