Modern India Quotes

#1. Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Pranab Mukherjee

#2. Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Pranab Mukherjee

#3. Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.

Gurcharan Das

#4. India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Anita Desai

#5. I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

Narendra Modi

#6. I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

Vikas Swarup

#7. In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic ... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious, ... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India ... Energetic and eventful.

M.G. Vassanji

#8. The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

B.R. Ambedkar

#9. I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

Kiran Desai

#10. I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.

Narendra Modi

#11. In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

Ben Bernanke

#12. I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is beside the point. Not that I don't eventually end up reading them. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy.

Jennifer Kaufman

#13. Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.

Narendra Modi

#14. It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

Anil Ambani

#15. The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as "swami", "baba" and "guru" are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#18. Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

Narendra Modi

#19. The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

Alvin Francis Poussaint

#21. Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

Rose George

#22. The question is how to arrive at your opinions and not what your opinions are.

Bertrand Russell

#23. Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and hear Him ...

Kyle Idleman

#24. In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind.

Meghna Pant

#25. In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

Pankaj Mishra

#26. I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

Jonathan Littell

#27. Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness.

Andrew Miller

#28. The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.

Victor Hugo

#29. preaching is about trans- formation, not information.

Michael Duduit

#30. It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.

Harold J. Laski

#31. Evil smelled like nothing else, worse than a rotting corpse, worse than sewage and disease, more vile than the fumes that billowed from modern machinery, more cloying than the shame of drunken whores.

India Drummond

#32. For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

Bipasha Basu

#33. India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!

Narendra Modi

#34. I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

Randy Couture

#35. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

#36. My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.

Emily Blunt