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.
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
To be successful in life what you need is education.
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.
A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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.
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.