I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'