Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one’s father is the glory of son ship.
Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Without prayer there is no inward peace.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
The English peace is the peace of the grave.
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.