Quotes on Happy Independence Day India

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.