Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.