Nation Quotes

There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone.

Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth. Know the power hidden in serving. We seem to have got stuck with external forms of politics and mistaking them to be nation-building. It is the sacrifices, toil and valour that and seldom shown or seen that truly makes a nation.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.

It was exciting that such new technology was being developed in our nation which had become independent only two decades back. From a country that had been left ravaged by years of colonization, we had learnt to dream big and were working on fulfilling this dream fearlessly.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!