Quotes About Swadeshi

#1. Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#2. My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Gandhi's idea of swadeshi-that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom-is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

Vandana Shiva

#8. Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.

Cary Grant

#15. Looking back with the infallible benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that anyone believed we could actually have stayed out of that damned war.

Craig Siegel

#16. I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

Missy Elliot

#17. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

#18. The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

#19. During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

Mike Krzyzewski