The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.