Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain...

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

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight...

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

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...

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

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

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

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

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not...

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country...

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Great causes and little men go ill together.