Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.