Narendra Modi Quotes

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society.

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in some ways eroded caste turned out not to be the case, that it has in fact been entrenched and modernised.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.

My fear is that in general terms the evolution of the political process proceeds at the same pace as the evolution of the species and I do not myself believe that that is quite fast enough

Every generation of Muslims should be permitted to solve their own problems, guided but unhampered by the work of its predecessors.

Our development as a people has for many years been overshadowed in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world by the remarkable growth, and achievements of the American Union.

We are not a democratic country, but we are progressive on various issues, on women and on what I would call tolerance. The government emphasizes prosperity over political development. We think 20 percent politics/80 percent development, and I think that is healthy.

Inter-caste marriages in India are on the rise but still tend to be the province of the liberal few. For much of the country, with its penchant for arranged marriages and close family ties, caste is still a primary determinant in choosing a spouse. Politics is where caste has gotten a surprising new lease on life. After money and education, democracy is, of course, the third powerful force transforming Indian society. But Indians, it turns out, are passionate about the caste of their politicians. Nearly half of the voting population of even a highly educated city like Bangalore considers caste to be the No. 1 reason to vote for a candidate.

In India, cast not class … is what counts most in popular life.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can. Innovation is a necessity.

As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers.

I am overall optimistic about India's growth.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.