I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.