I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

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

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

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.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.