Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.