For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.