The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo EmersonViolent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma GandhiBritain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
Noam ChomskyI would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
Che GuevaraTo other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
Gordon RamsayUntil 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.
Hermann HesseWhat the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.
Sunil ChhetriI think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Bill GatesThere is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
Bill GatesI rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.
David BowieMy mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.
Kamala HarrisWhen Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Noam ChomskyIndia is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston ChurchillNewspaper readership is still growing in India.
Bill GatesI’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George CarlinI am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
George W. BushI’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.
Virat KohliIndia’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.
Noam ChomskyIndia should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyWhat Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret ThatcherEveryone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.
Virat Kohli2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.
Mark ZuckerbergIn India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhen I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI’m a Bangalore boy.
Sunil ChhetriWe are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.
Richard BransonIn India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.
Sunil ChhetriIndia can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamBoth times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.
Stephen CoveyHowever, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne WestwoodFor me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.
Narendra ModiIndia has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainWe have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
Narendra ModiFor any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe BidenThere is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIndians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
Narendra ModiIt is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham LincolnEven if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.
Sunil ChhetriWhen I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.
Sunil ChhetriThe most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas SowellEven after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
Narendra ModiIndia has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
Bill GatesWe will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMy 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson MandelaIndia has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret ThatcherThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam ChomskyIndia does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.
Narendra ModiIn Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.
Stephen HawkingI believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Narendra ModiIf you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
Noam ChomskyFortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
Bill GatesUnlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.
Robert KiyosakiGreat men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David ThoreauThe diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
Narendra Modi