India Quotes
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In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
Virchand Gandhi -
India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups
Ian Chappell -
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.
Vandana Shiva -
I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
Georgina Chapman
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I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Relations between India and China have been founded on solid understanding of the affinities of the cultures and the civilizations of the two countries, and the imperatives of peaceful co-existence and close co-operation between them in the post-cold war world. I believe that India-China friendship and co-operation could be a shining example of concord and harmonious relations between two ancient civilizations and the foundation for a just, stable and peaceful world order.
K. R. Narayanan -
India is one of the youngest startup nations in the world, and so far, various technology startups have witnessed phenomenal growth. It's amazing how these startups are thriving solely based on domestic demands. It speaks volumes about India's economy and its rich talent pool.
Bhavin Turakhia -
Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
Mahatma Gandhi -
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
Virchand Gandhi -
If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
Kushal Pal Singh
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
Mahatma Gandhi -
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We have to acknowledge the substantial progress that has been made in India.
Pierre Pettigrew -
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.
Teju Cole
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.
Barack Obama -
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
Mahatma Gandhi