In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.