Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; The way you play it is free will.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,

A theory must be tempered with reality.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.

In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

All societies end up wearing masks.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

The neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.