Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one