"India is supposed to be a religious country above everything else, and Hindu and Muslim and Sikh and others take pride in their faiths and testify to their truth by breaking heads."

"The greatest danger in life is to take too many precautions."

"By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth."

"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it…"

"India is predominantly an agricultural country, but we don't grow food to feed our people. Some say we are an industrial country, but where is the development of industries? What shall we say?” To thi…"