Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Books are indispensable. You can move from hard copies to soft copies. But that’s about it.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. 

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.