India Quotes

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India.. best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

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.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

The true India resides in its villages.

Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

For the poor, for those who want to serve, the only place left for such people is BJP. When someone joins the BJP family, it is not only about membership, we strengthen relationships.

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.

The future of India lies in its villages

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.