Quotes

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

God primes the pump of obligation.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Freedom is never granted; it is won.

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Justice is never given; it is exacted.