Politics Quote by V D Savarkar

“Alexander's mere name and the fame of his feats raised rulers and realms across virtually the whole world. And those who kept control of…

— Andrew Chugg

“Of whomsoever else he might be the conqueror, Alexander was never the conqueror of India! He did not even see the courtyard (of the…

— Savarkar

“Some forms of Indian asceticism, although not all, have a socio-political dimension and these cannot be marginalized as merely the wish to negate life.”

— Romila Thapar

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

— Plutarch

“Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully…

— Jules Verne

“India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed…

— Meghnad Desai

“...no one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at the difficulties which others, like Pyrrhus…

— Machiavelli Niccolo

“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.”

— Andrew Chugg

“India all too easily forgets its own history under British rule, and the declaration of its freedom fighters that the oppressor does not have…

— Angana P. Chatterji

“That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical education.”

— Hans Gruber