Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.