“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldGivingHeartDoeRunningAbleSpiritualHumanityAsksWaterSimplePoorCompassionMoralCuttingEconomicExampleBrokenAmountDemandEatingMassIndiaBlameDistanceCancerOilMusclesFarmersConsumerismBleedingPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.” HumansPersonsMadeIndividualSimpleAnswersRaceSituationCryIndiaSouthRaisedComplexesExcuseThese DaysHuman RaceComplexityStride Author:Pearl S. Buck
“We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.” IdeasProblemSocialSimpleDealsNeededFitIndiaEntrepreneurParadigmSimple Ideas Author:Bill Drayton
“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldRunningWaterSimplePoorDemandIndiaBlameFarmersConsumerismPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.” KnowsMenHumansMaySaidLightEarthSimpleWalksFiveCenturyMountainIndiaMiles21st CenturySimple Man Author:Ram Dass
“Technology for me is discover, learn, evolve and implement. It combines 3Ss- speed, simplicity and service. Technology is fast, technology is simple and technology is a brilliant way to serve people. It is also a great teacher. The more we learn about technology and the more we learn through technology, the better it is.” PeopleWaySimpleTechnologyTeacherIndiaSimplicitySpeedBrilliantEvolveGreat TeacherInformation Technology Author:Narendra Modi
“In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a problem, I want to find a teacher." The other half say, "I have a problem because I have a teacher!" So it's not so simple.” PeopleWantSometimesProblemSimpleHalfTeacherIndiaOther Half Author:Tenzin Palmo
“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.” MenFirstsSometimesSimplePrinciplesVirtueInfluenceExampleReturnIndiaStriveContraryWickedAshamedGood ManOne ManRepublicGood ExamplesRepublic Day Book:The Prince Source: The Prince
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” MenFirstsWellsMeanTwoImportantIdeasRememberValuesSimpleNumbersEducationPositionGeniusTenAchievementAppreciateIndiaAbsolutesMathematicsMethodProfoundSimplicityAppreciationMathInventionSymbolsMathematicalEaseMeritReceivingGrandeurAntiquityIngeniousArithmeticComputationNumbers And MathGreatest ManGreat Math Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace
“If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsDoeEnoughProblemBigsGrowsSimpleKnow HowFiguresDemandIndiaIncreaseIraqProductionsChinaObligationChineseExpertsProjectionArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBig ProblemsSubtraction Author:Fatih Birol
“The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.” PeopleWorldHeartSimpleDealsIndiaGuidesIndianAstonishingShantaram Book:Shantaram: A Novel Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First” PeopleWayFirstsDifferentPoliticsTermSimpleIndiaDifferent WaysDifferent PeoplesSecularism Author:Narendra Modi