India Quotes - Page 14

• The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Recovery, Loss, Empires

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• President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Ohio, Office

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• In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

  Chiranjeevi

  Kashmir, Favourite

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• Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Weakness, Needs, Debate

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• I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, States, Single Word

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Energy

  "As Obama departs India, a push for reform" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2015.

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• There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Education, Believe, Two

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• India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Competition, Chinese, Scared

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• Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, May, One Thing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Daughter, Light

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• What the United States has done hasn't always been liked or popular. But if you look at some of the most populous places in the world - China, India - the United States is not only respected but, in fact, popular.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, Looks, Done

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Adventure, America, Discovery

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

  Richard J. Foster

  Running, Simple, Water

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• Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unity, Sides, Impossible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Moving, Taken

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• India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, Village, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Virtue

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Village, Units

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.349, Rajpal & Sons

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• I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Ruins, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.164, Vintage

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• I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Gains, Refrain

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

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• I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Arms, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Millions

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• Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Realization

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.19, Oxford University Press

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• I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independence, Want, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Dust, Feet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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