What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice …

- Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intellig…

- Syama Prasad Mukherjee

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intol…

- Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means o…

- Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until…

- Syama Prasad Mukherjee