"Muslims are we, the country is ours, China and Arabia is ours, India is ours. Under the shadow of swords we have grown up. The crescent scabbard is our national emblem."

“Every land which belongs to God is our land.”

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”

“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism.”

“Democracy is a system where people are counted but not weighed.”

“My forefathers were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of God. I am spending my life in search of Man.”

“[T]he tyranny of imperialism struts abroad, covering its face under the masks of Democracy, Nationalism, Communism, Fascism and heaven knows what else besides. Under these masks, in every corner of the earth, the spirit of freedom and the dignity of man are being trampled underfoot in a way to which not even the darkest period of human history presents a parallel. The so-called statesmen to whom government and leadership of men was entrusted have proved demons of bloodshed, tyranny and oppression. ... After subjugating and establishing their dominion over weaker peoples, they have robbed them of their possessions, of their religions, their morals, of their cultural traditions and their literatures.”