India Quotes - Page 2

• The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Expression, Hands

  "Science & Technology in India Through the Ages". Book by George Bernard Shaw (p. 213),

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• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strong, Blood, Independence

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Powerful, Fall, People

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

  Hu Shih

  Soldier, Independence, Borders

  "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.

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• India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Religious, Land, Ideas

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• India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, People, History

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

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• I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Country, Strong, Men

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• Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White

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• And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.

  Max Muller

  Race, Order, Perfect

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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• In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Exercise, Voice

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• To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

  Alan Watts

  Wise, Technology, Men

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• Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cobblers, Cottages, Republic

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• Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Journey, Progress, Together

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• India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Spiritual, Perfect

  Besant's lecture at the Grand Theatre, Calcutta, on January 15, 1906. "Hindu superiority". Book by Har Bilas Sarda, 1906.

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• Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Political, Liberty

  H. G. Wells (1933). “Shape Things Come”

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Government

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, School, Men

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My life is my message.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.8, Oxford University Press

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• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Environmental, World, West

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Time, One Day, Possibility

  "India's man for all seasons" by Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.

  Ratan Tata

  Country, Opportunity, Greatness

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• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  Allen West

  Compassion, Independence, Together

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• I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  Valleys, World, Bangalore

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