A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.