Indian Quotes - Page 19

• Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine... And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine.

  George Brandis

  People, Coal, Development

  "Coal mining essential for Central Queensland jobs: Brandis". "AM" with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. June 21, 2016.

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• If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, America, What If

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

  Vandana Shiva

  Independence, Spinning, Firsts

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.

  Vandana Shiva

  Land, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Blood, Germany, Might

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.

  Karan Bajaj

  Sex, Growing Up, Writing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from the perspective of an Indian main character, I think I would have assumed a lot of knowledge and I would have resented the presence of the author.

  Karan Bajaj

  Character, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.

  Karan Bajaj

  Karma, Yoga, Book

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.

  Leonard Peltier

  Loss, America, Family And Friends

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today, most of those American Indian Movement organ-izers are the elders. They are quite adept at bringing attention to the public about any attacks upon our people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Past, People, Political

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Race, People, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.

  Manmohan Singh

  Moving, Authority, Certain

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• I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

  Manmohan Singh

  People, India, Spirit

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• I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.

  Manmohan Singh

  Gratitude, Thinking, America

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• India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Independent, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• 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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: sangam.org

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• I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Hands, Able

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Thinking, One Day

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

  Indira Gandhi

  Clothes, London, Students

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Children, Boys

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.

  Jamie Dimon

  Ambition, People, Hopeful

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.

  Phife Dawg

  Christian, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development.

  Noam Chomsky

  Effort, Tolls, Development

  Source: www.dawn.com

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