Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

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