A safe army is better than a safe border
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Religion is for man and not man for religion
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.
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.
Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.
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.
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.
If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts.
I refuse to join with them in performing the miracle—I will not say trick—of liberating the oppressed with the gold of the tyrant, and raising the poor with the cash of the rich.
The outcaste is a bye-product of the caste system. There will be outcastes as long as there are castes. Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.
The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.
Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.