A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist