Nations Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

— Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must…

— Swami Vivekananda

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side…

— Swami Vivekananda

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they…

— Swami Vivekananda

The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who…

— Swami Vivekananda

We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the…

— Swami Vivekananda

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your…

— Swami Vivekananda

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We…

— Swami Vivekananda

Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side…

— Swami Vivekananda

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the…

— Swami Vivekananda

. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;…

— Swami Vivekananda

I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and…

— Swami Vivekananda

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the…

— Swami Vivekananda

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every…

— Swami Vivekananda

Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you…

— Swami Vivekananda

A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.

— Swami Vivekananda

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the…

— Swami Vivekananda

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

— Swami Vivekananda