The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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.
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.