My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.