Indian Politician Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

Jawaharlal Nehru

Indira Gandhi

Narendra Modi

Subhas Chandra Bose

Rajiv Gandhi

Pranab Mukherjee

While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee

If we exert ourselves with determination, no obstacle, however formidable, can stop our progress.

Bidhan Chandra Roy

The edifice of my educational thought is almost entirely beholden to the views of Kerschensteiner. At later stages, however, Gandhiji's influence and his elaboration of some of the finest points on the subject provided the much needed depth and expansion. Words turned into projects and a mere conceptual and transient framework became an insuperable part of my life.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.

Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.

AYUSH can definitely help as ayurveda has special medicinal syrups in this regard. Already 5,000-6,000 people have received the medicine at Rajasthan. The National Institute of Ayurveda at Rajasthan has already sent batches of that medicine to different states and we have also requested them to send the same to other states.

Shripad Yasso Naik

On behalf of the people of Tamil Nadu I convey our good wishes to you on creating a world record by scoring double century in one day internationals at Gwalior. We are highly delighted that you have surpassed all the previous records in this regard

In our warm climate, we have not got the same incentive to exertion and we may never be able to attain the same level of prosperity as Western people.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya

As the President of India, I had lots of experiences that were full of pain and helplessness. There were occasions when I could do nothing for people and for the nation. These experiences have pained me a lot. They have depressed me a lot. I have agonised because of the limitations of power. Power and the helplessness surrounding it are a peculiar tragedy, in fact.

K. R. Narayanan

Some political leaders were trying to spread the poison of regionalism and casteism for narrow political gain.

We in this country also need to make sure that the doors of learning are always kept open because India still belongs to the developing world.

Fali Sam Nariman

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Justice to all, appeasement of none. [...] People who played the politics of appeasement have ruined the country, not us.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

There have been a couple of key-points, for example in 1942, we had to close down the papers at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi, and during the emergency when we had to face the full wrath of the government. On both the occasions, we carried our policy to its logical conclusion.

In a word, no forcible conversions, no massacres, no destruction of temples.... Muslim historians of those times are in raptures at the heap of Kafirs [sic] who have been dispatched to hell. Muslim historians are forever lavishing praise on the ruler for the temples he has destroyed,... Law books like The Hedaya prescribe exactly the options to which these little textbooks alluded. All whitewashed away. Objective whitewash for objective history. And today if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the shout, "Communal rewriting of history."

Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the follower of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety.

Syed Ahmed Khan

Our activists will go around with a priest, a turmeric stub and a 'mangal sutra' on February 14. If we come across couples being together in public and expressing their love, we will take them to the nearest temple and conduct their marriage.

Pramod Muthalik

One problem is the destruction of the habitat, and the second is this constant catching of elephants for training, for tourism or logging. And this training that we are doing is the most brutal, primitive and stupid in the whole world.

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

Subhas Chandra Bose

The joy, the tension, the exhilaration and the happiness those Sundays brought into our lives served as a cushion, I am sure, for the sterner life which was ahead for all of us.

Learie Constantine