I do not wish disaster to British arms.
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.