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"I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India."
"Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself."
"(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia."
"India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world"
"The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well."
"China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'."
"I went to India, lived, and studied."
"I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India."
"India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die."
"It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India."
"The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India."
"It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen."
"In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness."
"My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India."
"The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom."
"Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated."
"Idleness is the great plague of India."
"For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide."
"I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it."
"Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste."
