" When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" Mother,’
said the Mahatma, ‘this is the temple, the mosque, the vihara and the
gurdwara of Mother India. Cast aside all fear from your heart." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" No study is likely to be fruitful of results if carried on without a
system. The majority of those who pursue knowledge for its own sake
pursue it after an aimless and desultory fashion." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" The
Motherland is our only mother. Our Motherland is higher than heaven.
Mother India is our mother. We have no other mother. We have no father,
no brother, no sister, no wife, no children, no home, no hearth — all we
have is the Mother." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" Thousands of men, women and children might die of starvation; yet there must be no cessation in the collection of taxes." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" When,
O Master, when shall we see our Mother India in this garb again — so
radiant and so cheerful?’ ‘Only when all the children of the Motherland
shall call her Mother in all sincerity." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" To die without accomplishing our work, is that desirable?" - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" Because
the British keep India in subjection by the sword. And she can be freed
only by the sword. Those who talk of winning India’s independence by
peaceful means do not know the British, I am sure. Please say vande
Mataram." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" In our work we do not differentiate between Hindu or Muslim,Buddhist
or Sikh, Parsee or Pariah. We are all brothers here — all Children of
the same Mother India." - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
" "The
nature of the sacrifice of the sinner, who will always sacrifice the
sinner - but every time he takes the forest, the person who is next to
him, will go back to the next ritual. You are bad - so why should I not
be good? " - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
