Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.