The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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.
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.
India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.
India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.
We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.
Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone to get opportunities wherever they are staying. Aatma gaav ki ho aur suvidha sheher ki ho, this is what we believe.
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.