logo

Quotes About India

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
~ David Frum
For most of the Middle Ages, the economic nerve center of the world economy and the source of its most dramatic financial innovations was neither China nor India, but the West, which, from the perspective of the rest of the world, meant the world of Islam.
~ David Graeber
Jaspers became fascinated by the fact that figures like Pythagoras (570–495 BC), the Buddha (563–483 BC), and Confucius (551–479 BC) were all contemporaries, and that Greece, India, and China, in that period, all saw a sudden efflorescence of debate between contending intellectual schools, each group apparently unaware of the others' existence.
~ David Graeber
The tusks from India, Ceylon, &c, are smaller in size, partly of an opaque character, and partly translucent (or, as it is technically called "bright"), and harder and more cracked, but those from Siam and the neighbouring countries are very "bright," soft, and fine grained; they are much sought after for carvings and ornamental work. Tusks
~ David Livingstone
I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests
~ Matthew Hayden
If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.
~ Ayelet Waldman
I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.
~ Manmohan Singh
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
~ Noam Chomsky
India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.
~ C. N. Annadurai
I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.
~ Narendra Modi
I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.
~ Narendra Modi
The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.
~ John Templeton
A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.
~ Narendra Modi
I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.
~ P. Chidambaram
I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
~ Narendra Modi
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.
~ Ratan Tata
After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.
~ Narendra Modi
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.
~ Joe Biden
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
~ Derek Bok
World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.
~ Narendra Modi
If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
~ Kushal Pal Singh