Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.