Rukmini Devi Arundale Quotes

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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
Dance was really the art of the temple and that her temple theater was built with that purpose in mind. It has many features of the temple, and we have adopted as much as possible all the ideals enshrined in Natyashastra.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
The demand for vegetarian food will increase our production of the right kind of plant foods. We shall cease to breed pigs and other animals for food, thereby ceasing to be responsible for the horror of slaughter houses where millions of creatures cry in vain because of man's selfishness. If such concentration camps for slaughtering continue, can peace ever come to earth? Can we escape the responsibility for misery when we are practicing killing every day of our lives by consciously or unconsciously supporting this trade of slaughter? Peace cannot come where Peace is not given.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
That she learned ballet not with the idea of becoming a full-fledged dancer. It was just to train my body and more for the sheer joy of learning something beautiful.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
I was brought up on Music, and being near Tiruvaiyaru for sometime during childhood, I got several opportunities to listen to great Music.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
To be truly Indian one had to be truly international, exhorting them to honour the best in all civilizations and to live it in their daily lives.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
Many people have said many things. I can only say I did not consciously go after dance. It found me.

Rukmini Devi Arundale
We dance with our bodies, but we finally forget them and transform them.

Rukmini Devi Arundale