India Quotes

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the...

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Governm...

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of t...

That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our s...

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the mid-day su...

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they canno...

But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in...

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a...

Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the pop...

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s...

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisatio...

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in Indi...

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the natio...

Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and rese...

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of it...

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India m...

flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of ...

If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in differe...

The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is mor...

Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the...

minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the main...

How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they...

And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn’t another outfit in...

Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no ...

An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a se...

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and pr...

Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, there’s an old Hindu story about Truth. It...

What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more ...

Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get — he died from a Hindu assassin’s bullet with...

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...

We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that...

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much...

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

For years and years, even during the time of my first visit in 1962, it has been said that Calcutta ...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

There was just enough room for the tonga to get through among the bullock-carts, rickshaws, cycles a...

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. Sh...

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of mo...

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world...

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the cr...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delh...

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only ...

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. T...

But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again,James had riske...

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...

Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radhara...

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific disc...

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

That particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the...

I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great...

In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used...

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century ...

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with s...

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't...

And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, ...

Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepr...

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and...

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in o...

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed t...

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of pe...

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every p...

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight be...

We hear all this talk about integrating the world economically, but there is an argument to be made ...

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him ...

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salva...

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had...

These stupid biases and discrimination are the reason our country is so screwed up. It's Tamil first...

I saw [Chennai]. It had the usual Indian elements like autos, packed public buses, hassled traffic c...

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pu...

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste...

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a le...

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between p...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure be...

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millenniu...

In the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble...

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge...

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of Eng...

And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with th...

It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping...