If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.