My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

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