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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

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 theory must be tempered with reality.

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

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

A man who is afraid will do anything.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.