India Quotes

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

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

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

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

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

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.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

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

All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

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

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. 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.

It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

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

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

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

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

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

Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

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.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

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.

I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.