Ramesh Quotes

#1. A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

Jairam Ramesh

#2. I fail because I attempt!

Ramesh Sattenapalli

#3. I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

Jairam Ramesh

#4. WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

Jairam Ramesh

#5. Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Jairam Ramesh

#6. The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#7. He lit the night he brought with the fire that puts out the planets when time ends.

Ramesh Menon

#8. The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#9. There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Jairam Ramesh

#10. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Jairam Ramesh

#11. Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Jairam Ramesh

#12. Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#13. I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

Jairam Ramesh

#14. India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

Jairam Ramesh

#15. Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Jairam Ramesh

#16. One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Ramesh Menon

#17. 10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.

Ramesh Selvarajoo

#18. Understand that nothing happens
unless it is God's will and
do what you like.
What can be simpler than that?

Ramesh S Balsekar

#19. Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva.

Ramesh Menon

#20. Real bliss is the absence
of the wanting of bliss

Ramesh S Balsekar

#21. We can buy most things in life except time.

Ramesh Lohia

#22. The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

Jairam Ramesh

#23. You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.

Ramesh Babu

#24. The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

Jairam Ramesh

#25. The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#26. It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#27. Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell.

Ramesh Menon

#28. Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance.

Ramesh Lohia

#29. Discovery of India' by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Thota Ramesh

#30. Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#31. Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#32. It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual ... When I look at the debate over Elian ... I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.

Ramesh Ponnuru

#33. I kissed a ghoul and I liked it.

Ramesh Kula

#34. India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

Jairam Ramesh