Ca India Quotes

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

There may be a difference of the pace at which India moves, but there should be no doubt whatsoever about the direction in which India is going to move in years to come.

The United States and India can work together.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

India's political system also would need to be modernized.

India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.

70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.