Savarkar Quotes

“It is not the videshi [foreign] cloth that we burn but the videshi [foreigner] itself - the treacherous attachment to foreigners and consequent betrayal of our Nation that we mean to burn here.”
― Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

“If Savarkar had any sweetheart, his country was the only sweetheart he had.”
― Anonymous

“In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak (Savarkar) always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the time they illegitimately captured and subjugated Indians. But once India was liberated from these shackles, there should be no trouble embracing them as friends and fellow humans.

So much so that if tomorrow another country captured England in a similar illegal and exploitative way, Indians must be the first to support England’s right to struggle and free itself.”
― Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 Volume 1, Part 2

“In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the time they illegitimately captured and subjugated Indians. But once India was liberated from these shackles, there should be no trouble embracing them as friends and fellow humans.

So much so that if tomorrow another country captured England in a similar illegal and exploitative way, Indians must be the first to support England’s right to struggle and free itself.”
― Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924