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.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

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.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

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