--- title: "3 Savarkar Quotes" description: "Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician and ideologue. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva during his incarcerat..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c46/savarkar-83798_face-to-face_that-valiant-macedonian-supreme-commande_90378.jpg" --- # Savarkar **3** quotes in **6** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician and ideologue. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva during his incarceration at Ratnagiri in 1923. He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha. ## Quotes by Savarkar > [“That valiant Macedonian supreme commander and emperor Alexander, in his thirties and the future Indian captain-general and emperor Chandragupta just on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/savarkar/that-valiant-macedonian-supreme-commander-and-emperor-alexander-in/) [Savarkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/savarkar/) [Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c46/savarkar-83798_face-to-face_that-valiant-macedonian-supreme-commande_90378.jpg) > [“It seems a common weakness among all human societies and communities, in a greater or lesser degree, to attempt to judge the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/savarkar/it-seems-a-common-weakness-among-all-human-societies-and-communities/) [Savarkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/savarkar/) [Family](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/114/savarkar-83798_family_it-seems-a-common-weakness-among-all-hum_1032456.jpg) > [“Of whomsoever else he might be the conqueror, Alexander was never the conqueror of India! He did not even see the courtyard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/savarkar/of-whomsoever-else-he-might-be-the-conqueror-alexander-was-never-the/) [Savarkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/savarkar/) [Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/savarkar-83798_alexander_of-whomsoever-else-he-might-be-the-conqu_2910198.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/savarkar/#itemlist", "name": "Savarkar Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“That valiant Macedonian supreme commander and emperor Alexander, in his thirties and the future Indian captain-general and emperor Chandragupta just on the threshold of his twenties, but as yet merely a wandering nonentity stood face to face sizing up each other for a few moments! 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That is why as the time passes such inflated anecdotes about their family tradition are propagated and popularized through plays, poems and novels or through folklores. Was Chandragupta a concubine's son? Was he not a Kshatriya ? What matters though! 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