Indian Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Would Be, Taste

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, British Soldiers, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Breathe, British

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• The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Division, Four

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Humanity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Aggressive, Destructive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

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• In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, India, Culture

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• 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'.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Humanity, Unity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Matter, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Culture, Synthesis, Soil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dumb, Salt, India

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, West

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Humanity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Way, Aspire

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Village, Frontiers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

  Paul Harvey

  Philosophy, Yoga, Ideas

  Source: www.yogastudies.org

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• Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

  Paul Harvey

  Teacher, Yoga, Two

  Source: www.yogastudies.org

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• My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Reality, Responsible

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

  M. Night Shyamalan

  White, Problem, Members

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Powerful, War

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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