Quotes about India

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

Countries - India - Influence - Pakistan - State - Taliban

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Boy - Farming - India

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

Attraction - Buddhism - Calm - Enlightenment - India - Karma - Thinking

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

Consciousness - India - Knowledge - Meditation - Universal - Yogi

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Jack Kerouac

Novelist, Poet

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

India - Lie - Offence

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

Forgiving - India - Marvel - Mother - Suffering - Woman

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

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.

India - Linguistics

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

Economy - India - Linguistics - Mission - Politics - Religion

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Indira Gandhi

Former Prime Minister of India

I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.

Fall - India - Realization

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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Enchantment - India - Mornings

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.

Accept - India - Verification

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

Economy - India - Poetry

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.

India - Man - Savagery

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

Conceal - Hearing - India

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Amartya Sen

Economist, Philosopher

I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame the opposition as much. Why have they allowed the government to get away with it?

Blame - Countries - Government - India - Neglect - Opposition - Thinking

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Ability - Aspiration - Criminal - Generosity - Immigration - India - Moderation - Proposal - Slavery

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

India - Man - Studying

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

India is my kid sister.

India - Sister

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

India

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