Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.