India Quotes - Page 35

• Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Views, India And Pakistan

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• The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Israel, Korea

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• The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.

  Gaspar Noe

  New York, Class, People

  "Living Is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noe". "Post Script" Interview with Mitch Davis, June 22, 2002.

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• How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Latin, America

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• We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].

  Kofi Annan

  Meaningful, Believe, Home

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• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Nehru, Mao, China

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Miracle, Brazil, Trouble

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate Action, Ideas, Reason

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Agreement, Paris

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.

  Barack Obama

  People, Climate, Pollution

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, East, World

  Source: deadline.com

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• East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.

  Steven Knight

  Christian, Civilization, East

  Source: deadline.com

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• East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

  Steven Knight

  Organization, People, Evil

  Source: deadline.com

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• The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.

  Steven Knight

  Play, East, Stories

  Source: deadline.com

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• You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Action, Helping

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.

  Kabir Bedi

  Views, Europe, Differences

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

  Kabir Bedi

  Spiritual, Country, Land

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

  Kabir Bedi

  People, Perception, Democracy

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• In a country like India, we don't want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and cuisine for each region, even though we are united in the larger context. We are more like a fruit salad, where each ingredient has its own specialty, each fruit its distinct flavor, and together, the salad makes a tasty dish, without losing the individuality of each constituent.

  Kabir Bedi

  Country, Fruit Salad, Individuality

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent.

  Kabir Bedi

  Country, Continents

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in Indian law in India so far, but I do believe that soon, we will come on par with respecting the individuality of people with different sexualities.

  Kabir Bedi

  Believe, Rights, Law

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being stored in these silos so that they can be rifled through at the convenience of secret agents, basically.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Mean, Secret

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• 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

  Running, Stars, War

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Numbers, America, Agreement

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

  Paul Virilio

  Country, War, Suicidal

  Source: ctheory.net

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