I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.