Muhammad Iqbal

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.