India Quotes - Page 37

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.

India's political system also would need to be modernized.

Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.