Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.