The lines that make you stop

The idea itself is the real revolution.

Until the last person in society lives with dignity, our struggle continues.

An idea you cannot question is not your idea. It is your owner.

Power does not change a man. It only shows what he already was.

Freedom is not won at a flagpole. It is found at the counter where an ordinary person goes to get their work done.

We have not read our scriptures. We have worshipped them. And worship is the safest way to avoid a thing.

Do not judge an idea by its name. Judge it by what it says. Truth carries no one's stamp.

Replacing one tyranny with another is not revolution. It is only changing the guard.

The most dangerous slavery is an idea we take to be our own — one that has stopped us from thinking. That prison has no visible bars, and the prisoner is its own guard.

Man is not for ideology. Ideology is for man.

Admitting a mistake is not defeat. Defeat is knowing you are wrong and holding your ground only to save face.

The things left undone are not left for want of time. They are left because we kept putting them off — assuming tomorrow was certain.

Love — but do not own. Stand by someone — but do not keep accounts.

Marriage does not make two people alike. It teaches them how to walk together while staying different.

Society punishes the man whose flaw is visible, and garlands the man whose flaw is hidden.

I do not want you to accept what I say. I want you to learn to test it. Once you can, you will not need what I say at all.

If you mean to honour someone, do it while they live. What happens after death happens among the living.

I am the man who did not stop asking. And as long as one question lives — the revolution lives.

Fate is the favourite word of those who never had to answer for anything.

A man who never changed never learned. He only carried his first opinion all his life.

Religion is an organisation; the spirit walks alone.

My quarrel is not with God, but with His contractors.

A true teacher sets you free of himself.

My fire did not go out. It changed direction.

Silence too is a kind of death. And I am not willing to die twice.

Truth is nobody's estate. It is not bought and not inherited. It has to be searched for.

My greatest mistakes were not the things I did. My greatest mistakes were the silences I wrapped around myself.

Caste did not die — it put on a suit.

Poverty is not fate, it is an arrangement.

School made servants, not human beings.

Every revolution eats its own children.

The one who fells the tree is guilty — so is the one who watches.

I do not fear death — I fear being unfinished.

The earth is an open prison.