The nationality of our people rests on a religious and fatalistic basis, not on an economic basis, as in the West. There are still people among us who believe the golden age was in the past. We are devoted to the past ideals although, out of necessity or prospect of personal gain, we have partly taken to Western methods of work and business. There is a yearning for the old ideals and a halfhearted acquiescence in the new, on the whole, the genius of the people is for standing still.


Quoted in Our Leaders. Children's Book Trust. 1989. ISBN 978-81-7011-701-8.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya Quotes

The nationality of our people rests on a religious and fatalistic basis, not on an economic basis, as in the West. There are still people among us...

The nationality of our people rests on a religious and fatalistic basis, not on an economic basis, as in the West. There are still people among us...

The nationality of our people rests on a religious and fatalistic basis, not on an economic basis, as in the West. There are still people among us...

The nationality of our people rests on a religious and fatalistic basis, not on an economic basis, as in the West. There are still people among us...