With five hundred men,…the conquest of India might take fifty years : with as many women, not more than a few weeks.
– Swami Vivekananda.

Renunciation, that is the flag, the banner of India, floating over the world, the one undying thought which India sends again and again as a warning to dying races, as a warning to all tyranny, as a warning to wickedness in the world. Ay, Hindus, let not your hold of that banner go. Hold it aloft. Even if you are weak and cannot renounce, do not lower the ideal.
– Swami Vivekananda.

 

Man is to become divine by realising the divine. Idols or temples or churches or books are only the supporters, the helps, of his spiritual childhood : but on and on he must progress.
– Swami Vivekananda.

Unity is knowledge, diversity is ignorance. This knowledge is your birthright… There never were different religions in the world. We are all destined to have salvation, whether we will it or not. You have to attain it in the long run and become free, because it is your nature to be free.
– Swami Vivekananda.

India will be raised, not with the power of the flesh, but with the power of the spirit; not with the flag of destruction, but with the flag of peace and love… Say not that you are weak. The spirit is omnipotent.
– Swami Vivekananda.

Religion, the common inheritance, the universal birthright of the race, must be brought free to the door of everybody. Religion in India must be made as free as easy of access is God’s air. And this is the kind of work we have to bring about in India, but not by getting up little sects and fighting on points of difference.
– Swami Vivekananda.

Women must be put in position to solve their own problems in their own way. No one can or ought to do this for them. And our Indian women are as capable of doing it as any in the world.
– Swami Vivekananda.

Every one must be ready for it – the conquest of the whole world by India – nothing less than that, and we must all get ready for it, strain every nerve for it… Up, India, and conquer the world with your spirituality ! Ay, as has been declared on this soil first, love must conquer hatred, hatred cannot conquer itself.
– Swami Vivekananda.

All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women. That country and that nation which do not respect women have never become great, nor will ever be in future.
– Swami Vivekananda.

…arise, awake, for the time is propitious. Already everything is opening out before us. Be bold and fear not. It is only in our Scriptures that this objective is given unto the Lord–Abhih, Abhih. We have to become Abhih, fearless, and our task will be done. Arise, awake, for your country needs this tremendous sacrifice.
– Swami Vivekananda.