Quotations on Mahamana

• "The Banaras University is Pandit Malaviya's crowning achievement. It is a stupendous monument to his peculiar genius, his piety, his audacity in conception, his persistence in execution, his magic influence in the world of Pandits and in that of Princes. Supreme in this sphere, he is all but supreme in Indian politics. Utterly devoid of personal ambition, he never bothered to gather a party round himself, or found a school of thought. Surendra Nath, Mehta, Gokhale and now Gandhi – to these he has always yielded first place with reverence and whole-hearted admiration."

  -Dr. V.S. Srinivasa Sastri,
  National Leader and Eminent JuristNational Leader

• "Sacrifice which Malaviyaji had made was unparalleled as he was born in poverty and from poverty rose to the position of an eminent lawyer earning thousands of rupees per month. He tasted richness and when the call came to him from within to serve his motherland, he sacrificed all and again courted poverty. His is the sacrifice, the real sacrifice, not mine."

  - Gopal Krishna Gokhale,
  National Leader

• "Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stands forth as one of the great buttresses of the Congress movement. Sober and moderate in his views, temperate but eloquent in his expression, he has been rightly declared the silver tongued orator of the Congress."

  - Surendranath Banerji,
  National leader and Co-founder of Indian National Congress

• "You are dancing with such a great pleasure standing before this fire today; do not ever forget that Malaviyaji's bones acted as the sandalwood to inflame it."

  - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose,
  

• "Pandit Malaviya stands today, I venture to suggest as a symbol of Indian unity among diversity of opinions. He is the purest specimen of classical Hinduism, the heart and the soul of Banaras Hindu University."

  - Annie Besant,
  A distinguished Theosophist and Freedom fighter

• "Pratah Smarniya Poojya Malaviyaji was the prime mover and the greatest leader to patronize the cause of Hindi. Both in politics and education he acted as a forerunner of an era and intiator of the transformation of an age."

  - Rajashri Purushottam Das Tandon,
  Freedom Fighter and Leader of Hindi Movement

• (Sources : 'Visionary of Modern India: Madan Mohan Malaviya'- Dr. S.K Maini, Dr Vishwanath Pandey, K. Chandramouli and 'Mahamana Malaviya: A Short (Sources : Biography'- Dr.U.D Tiwari)