Society is the past, and each one of us is the result of the past, the result of environment, of the society we live in, of the culture in which we have been brought up, the religious propaganda with which we have been inculcated through centuries. We are the result of all that, which is the past. And is it possible to break away from the past totally? The past is not only yesterday, but the many thousand yesterdays, the past which is the atomic bomb as well as the tradition of the Hindu, the Christian, the Buddhist, or of the recent social revolutionary.
From Public Talk 2, New Delhi, 24 January 1962