India Quotes - Page 23

• Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Ideas

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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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• Appurv Gupta brings you a unique point of view that no other comedian in India does. Well worth a watch.

  Papa CJ

  Unique, Views, Comedian

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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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• I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

  Gore Vidal

  Littles, Might, Rice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Race, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India

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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 rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Midst, States, Drunkards

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.155, Rajpal & Sons

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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 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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• To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Suffering, Gains

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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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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• India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Motivation, Technology

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• My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, Facts, Born

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

  Jean Dreze

  Happened

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• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.96, A&C Black

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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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