“The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.”
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter II, Part 5, The Terrible Ascent, p. 81
Wall Street Journal, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/04/rahul-gandhi-speech-hits-some-dud-notes/
“The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.”
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter II, Part 5, The Terrible Ascent, p. 81
“People tend to rally around power.”
Often cited as from a speech "on the eve of Indian Independence in 1947", e.g. "Anything multiplied by zero is zero indeed!" http://ia.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/11guest.htm in Rediff India Abroad (11 April 2007), or even from a speech in the house of Commons, but it does not appear to have any credible source. May have first appeared in the Annual Report of P. N. Oak's discredited "Institute for Rewriting Indian History" in 1979, and is now quoted in at least three books, as well as countless media and websites.
Misattributed
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller
1960s
Interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS) (7 October 2005) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/vonnegut.html
Various interviews
Context: [When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
“Europe is only powerful; India is beautiful.”
Savitri Devi, L'Etang aux Lotus, p. 222, quoted in Koenraad Elst: The Saffron Swastika, p. 562
Hair-Trigger Nuclear Alert Over Kashmir, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/11/hair-trigger-nuclear-alert-over-kashmir (11 August 2019)
Quoted in "A Learning CEO Can Power Through Tough Times: Indra Nooyi".