Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. 

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

Science creates scientists...who creates godmen?

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

If you work day-and-night, you may lose the sense of time.