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The three classes, Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas, although not very happy in their mutual relationship, managed to work by compromise. The Brahmin flattered the Kshatriya and both let the Vaishya live in order to be able to live upon him.
Social war has been raging between the strong and the weak far more violently in Europe than it has ever been in India.
There is no sympathy to the deserving. There is no appreciation of the meritorious.
Have not Hindus committed treason against their country in the interests of their caste?
A caste has no feeling that it is affiliated to other castes, except when there is a Hindu–Muslim riot.
Men do not become a society by living in physical proximity any more than a man ceases to be a member of his society by living so many miles away from other men.
a man is deprived of his liberty indirectly he has no consciousness of his enslavement. Untouchability is an indirect form of slavery.
This rule—no work, no bread—has no applicability to the slave. It is the duty of the master to find bread and also to find work.
whatever the views, they have certainly not the fixity of a popular prejudice. They are really thoughts and not views. In other words, I have an open mind, though not an empty mind.
The Hindus, having cultivated the Irish mentality to have no other politics except that of being always against the government, are ready to blame the government for everything, including bad weather.
He may be too self-opinionated, an egotist without the mask and has perhaps a degree of arrogance which is not compensated [for] by any extraordinary intellect or equipment.
The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is a brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation.
The second defect of Islam is that it is a system of social self-government and is incompatible with local self-government, because the allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country which is his but on the faith to which he belongs. Wherever there is the rule of Islam, there is his own country. In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu…as his kith and kin.
As two separate entities, they can reach their respective destinies which as parts of one whole they never can.
repeat, the only answer is that Indians will be able to defend a free India on one and one condition alone—namely, if the army in India remains non-political, unaffected by the poison of Pakistan.
what is the sense of living in a society which is devoid of humanity, which does not respect you, protect you or treat you as a human being?
liberty and equality had a place; but he added that unlimited liberty destroyed equality, and absolute equality left no room for liberty.
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as the governing principle.
