India Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Earth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Kuwait, Democracy, Pakistan

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 506, 1991.

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• Let work itself be the ambition.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Ambition

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• I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Vote, Problem

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• Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Nations, Governance

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• We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Government, Needs

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• Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

  Deepa Mehta

  Sorry, Men, White Man

  Source: collider.com

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• Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.

  Adnan

  Fall, Opportunity, Years

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• I will win a Grammy for India.

  Yo Yo Honey Singh

  Winning, Grammy, I Will Win

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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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• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  Gautam Adani

  Priorities, Focus, Investment

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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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• Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. This is one phase of my line of thought. In time, I hope to bring them all out, but at present I find I have a mission in this country also. Moreover, I expect help in this country and from here alone. But up to date I could not do anything except spreading my ideas. Now I want that a similar attempt be made in India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Strong, Moving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1767, Manonmani Publishers

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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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• We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

  Shimon Peres

  Europe, America, Giving

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization means and what it demands. The country has learned how to use other people's innovations for itself. India, incidentally, is not far behind China in this respect. Both are not nations in the European sense, but rather cultural communities with enormous markets. The challenge of the future is to work out how to deal with that.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

  Peter Drucker

  Mother, Compassion, World

  Source: thegathering.com

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