Indian Quotes - Page 15

• It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Would Be, Taste

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Breathe, British

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• In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, India, Culture

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• Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Humanity, Unity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

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• The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Matter, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Culture, Synthesis, Soil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

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• The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, West

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Way, Aspire

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Village, Frontiers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Reality, Responsible

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Powerful, War

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

  Evo Morales

  Class, Groups, Bolivia

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• It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya.

  Robert Svoboda

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: wildyogi.info

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• Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

  Satyajit Ray

  Motivational, Awards, Judgement

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• When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Two, Special, India

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Rights, Majority, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russell Means is quite a legend in the Indian community for what he's been able to achieve. It was a real honor to work with a guy who's been on the front lines of fighting for what he believes in.

  Karl Urban

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.

  Deepa Mehta

  Children, Years, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

  Frank Capra

  Country, Believe, Usa

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Successful, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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