Narendra Modi Quotes

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest. Just because we are a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era. Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries. International summits and organizations like WTO take decisions which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.