#india

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#divisive #government #india #motto #polity

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves. ↗

— James Welch

#been #before #come #defeated #fix

Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer to accept it. What is worse, they have fallen in love with this image, and can no longer accept that it is untrue. ↗

— Pavan K. Varma

#india #education

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household. ↗

— Amar Bose

#ate #been #both #could #deep

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship. ↗

— Simon Cameron

#both #breaking #could #countries #decision

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#african #african americans #beginning #behind #first

Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#beauty

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#cows #daring #eaten #enough #exists

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. ↗

— Geronimo

#bad #began #eat #everywhere #feeling

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. ↗

— Geronimo

#government #indian #indians #misdeeds #never