India Quotes

There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list.

A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

It was phenomenal to see what was going on there. I came away from there so energized about India, and I was pretty sure that [Narenda] Modi was going to win an election that wasn't easy to see.

One of the great parts about my job is I travel the world. I was in India right before the [Narenda] Modi election, and I don't think he was the frontrunner until the end.

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

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.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

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

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

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

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

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

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

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.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.