1. “Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.”

2. “Life should be great rather than long.”
3. “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
4. “Be aware that you are your own master.”
5. “I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peace and in war.”
6. “Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.”
7. “Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life.”
8. “If you want to see the poor remain poor, ‘divide them into separate electorates’.”
9. “Life should be great rather than long.”
10. “A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.”
11. “A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
12. “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.”
13. “History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.”
14. “Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man.”
15. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
16. “The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”
17. “Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down.”
18. “We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well.”
19. “Life should be great rather than long.”
20. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”
21. “Caste is a state of the mind. It is a disease of the mind.”
22. “Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in their turn, are used by unscrupulous politicians in order to foist their own evil aims upon the people.”
23. “The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”
24. “Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules.”
25. “The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”
26. “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
27. “If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.”
28. “We must not allow our rulers to invent new names and shuffle them like cards in order to hide their incompetence and failure.”
29. “Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.”
30. “Freedom of expression is the root of almost all other forms of freedom.”