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

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.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.