My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.

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

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

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

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

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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.