Kapil Sibal Quotes

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

I am honoured to be invited by our respected Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi to join the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.' I dedicate myself to this movement and will invite nine other leading Indians to join me in the 'Clean India' campaign.

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Let him not throw urine or feces into the water, nor saliva, nor clothes defiled by impure substances, nor any other impurity, nor blood, nor poisonous things.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

The Clintons are walking around on poo. But it’s very clean poo.

I think hygiene is so important.

Health and hygiene are a basic personal need for all.

We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.