This Belief In The Necessity

The Real Difficulty Is That People Have No Idea Of What Education Truly Is. We Assess The Value Of Education In The Same Manner As We Assess The Value Of Land Or Of Shares In The Stock-exchange Market. We Want To Provide Only Such Education As Would Enable The Student To Earn More. We Hardly Give Any Thought To The Improvement Of The Character Of The Educated. The Girls, We Say, Do Not Have To Earn; So Why Should They Be Educated? As Long As Such Ideas Persist There Is No Hope Of Our Ever Knowing The True Value Of Education.

The Purer I Try To Become, The Nearer I Feel To Be To God.

I Realized The True Function Of A Lawyer Was To Unite Parties Riven Asunder. The Lesson Was So Indelibly Burnt Into Me That A Large Part Of My Time During The Twenty Years Of My Practice As A Lawyer Was Occupied In Bringing About Private Compromises Of Hundreds Of Cases. I Lost Nothing Thereby -- Not Even Money, Certainly Not My Soul.

So Long As Untouchability Disfigures Hinduism, So Long Do I Hold The Attainment Of Swaraj To Be An Utter Impossibility.

Calling Them Devadasis We Insult God Himself In The Name Of Religion.