Nehru
- Everything else can wait but agriculture cannot
Abraham Lincoln
- It’s OK to make mistakes, Mistakes are our teachers…they help us to learn
Gandhi
- Sanitation is more important than Independence
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
- 7 sins of Ghadhi
- Worship without sacrifice
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Science without humanity
- Knowledge without character
- Politics without principle
- Commerce without morality
Dr. APJ Kalam
- India should walk on her own shadow. We must have our own development model
Martin Luther king Jr.
- If a man has not discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live
Confucius (Chinese thinker)
- Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves
Bertrand Russell - What does not determine who is right –only who is left
Montesque
- The less you think, the more people agree with you
Gautam Buddha
- Doubt everything. Find your own light
Joseph E.Stiglitz
- Development is about transforming the lives of people not just transforming economies
Newt Gingrich
- Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Martin luther king
- In matter of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Jeremy Bentham
- It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what the interest of the individual is.
India
- IT + IT = IT (info. Tech. + India’s talent = India’s tomorrow)
- If 135 crore people work together ; India will move 135 crore steps
- Why India is attractive to FDI = India offers Demographic dividend, democracy, demand, de- regulation
- 5C of Naxalism = Compassion, Communication, Co – existence, Confidence building, Consistancy
- India is an old country, but a young Nation. We are impatient, I am impatient. And I too had a dream of an India
– Strong, Independent & Self reliant
- SMART police = Strict & Sensitive, Modern & Mobile, Alert & Accountable, Reliable & responsive, Tech Sevy & Train
- Lok samasta Sukhino bhavantu = let the whole world be prosperous & Peaceful
Democracy
Gandhi
- I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. - The breach of one rule inevitably leads to breach of others rules
- When the Panchayat raj established, public opinion will do what violence can never do
- Believe in Ocean wave theory not in Pyramid shape of power = One delegate power to another
- A civilization is to be judged by its treatment of minorities
Amartya Sen
- Give them VOICE & CHOICE so that they can demand their rights and choose their own destiny
B.R Ambedkar
- Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy
Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects;
because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. - All persons ought to endeavour to follow what is right , and what is established
Fernando Cardoso
- Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen’s
possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.
Albert camus
- Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Voltaire
- I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Winston Churchill
- Democracy is the best form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
Martin Luther King Jr.
- A right delayed is right denied
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter
Benjamin franklin
- If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Mark Twain
- Loyalty to the country always, Loyalty to the government when it deserve it
John F kennedy
- Without debate, without criticism no Administration and no country can succeed & no Republic can survive
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Montesque
- To become truly great one has to stand with people not above them
Nehru
- In 1962 RK Laxman make a cartoon criticizing Nehru – But Nehru Praise him & his talent = shows spirit of democracy
Nelson Mandela
- There is no freedom without speech
Benjamin Disraeli
- Power has only one duty – to secure social welfare of People
Anonymous
- Democracy is not law of majority but protection of minority
- Democracy, Good governance & modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country
What is right is not always popular & what is popular is not always right
India
- Secularism, Pluralism & the right to dissent – the three ethos of Indian Democracy
- 3 D = Debate, Discuss & Dialogue Democracy, Demography, Demand
- Our constitution is a consequence of our democratic culture which reflect our ancient values
Constitution
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Constitution is itself a lifeless machine but it became alive when a man operated, if that person is a
man of character & integrity then he can makes the best irrespective of defective constitution it is
Franklin D Roosevelt
- The constitution was made for people & not the people for the constitution
Politics
Confucius
- Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance.
George orwell
- In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Pete Buttigieg
- Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation’s future.
Leo Tolstoy
- Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Autocracy
Albert Einstein
- Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth
Anonymous
- Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power
Prof. K.T Shah
- When autocrats finished all arguments , restart misusing power
Media
Jim Morrison
- Whoever control the media, controls the mind
John Lennon
- If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.
Thomas Jefferson
- The man who did nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspaper
POVERTY
Albert Camus
- There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
MKG
- Poverty is the worst form of violence
- To a starving person, God will appear in the form of bread alone
Martin Luther
- If you can’t feed 100 people then just feed one
Nelson Mandela
- Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of Justice
Amartya sen
- Poverty is not just a lack of money ; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being
Aristotle
- Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime
Vinoba bhave
- Gareeb vaha nahi h jiske pass dham kam h, bulky dhanwan hote hue bhi jiski iccha kam nahi hui h , vahi sabse bada gareeb h
Manmohan
- India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people
T.Krishna Iyar
- The breaks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant
India
- Vision of India = food for every mouth, work for every hand, Spark in everyone and joy in every
soul
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Education and values
Gandhi
- True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
CS Lewis
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Kofi annan
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Chanakya
- Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere.
- Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
APJ Kalam
- Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self- respect.
- Imagination leads to creativity, Creativity blossoms thinking, thinking provides knowledge, knowledge
results innovation , innovation makes the nation great
Theodore Roosevelt
- To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Ralphy waldo emerson
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Abraham Lincoln
- The best way to predict your future is to create it
Nelson Mandela
- Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world
- No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated
Herbert spencer
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but the action
Benjamin Franklin
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
John F Kennedy
A child mis-educated is a child lost.
Albert Einstein
- If you can’t explain it to a 6 year old , you don’t understand it yourself
- Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere
- If the ability of fish is measured by its ability to climb a tree then fish would have lived its entire life thinking that it is stupid
- We owe a lot of to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school
- Imagination is more important than knowledge
Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of 21st century will not be those who do not read or write but those who do learn, re-learn & unlearn
Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
Bill owens
A strong economy begins with a strong well educated workforce
Robert E lee
The education of a man is never completed until he dies
Plato
The mark of an educated person is the willingness to use one’s knowledge & skills to solve problems of society
Vivekananda
A nation is advanced in proportion to education & Intelligence spread among masses
Confucius (Chinese thinker)
Give a bowl of rice to a man & your will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice & you will save his life
If your plan is for 1 year – Plant rice, If your plan is for 10 year – Plant tree, if your plan is for 100 years – Educate children
Allan bloom
- Education is the movement from darkness to light
Anonymous
- Education begins in the womb & ends in Tomb
- Teach to transform, educate to empower, learn to lead
- The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation
Women empowerment
G.D. Anderson
- Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way
the world perceives that strength.
Rosa Luxemburg
- Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom.
Aung San Suu Kyi
- The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
Malala Yousafzai
- We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to
be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.
Mahatma Gandhi
- To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant moral
power, then woman is immeasurably superior man’s superior.
- A country can never be developed without the contribution of other half
B.R. Ambedkar
- I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Kofi Annan
- Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
APJ kalam
- The tricky societal members who can make a difference are father, mother & teacher
Vivekananda
- Countries & nations which do not respect women have never become great nor will ever be in future
Amartya Sen
- Empowering women is key to building a future we want
Hillary Clinton
- I believe that the rights of women & girls is unfinished business of 21st century
Ban Ki moon
- Every literate women is a victory over poverty
Fredo Adler
- Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accussed
Birgham young
- You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a women; you educate a generation
Anonymous
- Women is invisible workers without which the agricultural economy is hard to grow
Children
Gandhi
- If we are to teach real peace in this world, & if we carry on a real war against war, we shall have to
begin with the children (Imbibe social values in them)
- If we have to bring real peace in the world, we must begin with children
Margaret Mead
- Children must be taught how to think , not what to think
Judiciary
Gandhi
- There is a higher court than courts of Justice and that is the court of Conscience. It supersedes all other courts
Martin Luther
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Andrew Jackson
- All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
Rose bird
- The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.
DeRay Mackesson
- Justice that is not rooted in equality, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all
Albert Einstein
- In matters of Truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same
Anonymous
- Justice is truth in action
Corruption
Gandhi
- He who does not labor & yet eats, eats stolen food
Vivekananda
- If you get 1 rupee without working it means someone has worked and not got his 1 rs.
Bono
- The worst disease in the world is corruption & there is a cure : Transparency
RELIGION AND SECULARISM
Woodrow Wilson
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Dalai lama
- This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others
Voltaire
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Martin Luther King
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - To other countries I may go as a tourist but to India I came as a pilgrim
BR Ambedkar
- Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers
Gandhi
- Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what the religion is
- God has no religion
AB Vajpayee
- If India is not a secular nation, then is India is not India at all
Anonymous
- Blaming Islam for terrorism means blaming Christianity for Colonialism
- India is a land of Buddha, Mahavira & MKG, the greatest proponents of ahimsa
CULTURE
Ho shin
- India conquered & dominated china culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single solder across her border
India
- India has a very diverse culture but agriculture is the most basic culture of India
Anonymous
- Culture doesn’t make people, people make culture
Society
Marco Bizzari
- Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the centre of what we do.
Antonio Guterres
- The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
Malcolm Forbes
- Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Dr. Ambedkar
- Rights are protected not by law but by the social & moral conscience of society
- Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers Social Media
J.K Rowling
- The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
Narendra Modi
- Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
Aubrey Peeples
- There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
Malala Yousafzai
- What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
Clara Shih
- Social media isn’t a one-way broadcast; it’s a multiway opportunity for dialogue.
Anonymous
- Social media should improve your life, not become your life
Society
Marco Bizzari
- Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the centre of what we do.
Antonio Guterres
- The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
Malcolm Forbes
- Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Dr. Ambedkar
- Rights are protected not by law but by the social & moral conscience of society
- Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers
Social Media
J.K Rowling
- The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
Narendra Modi
- Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not
identities.
Aubrey Peeples
- There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
Malala Yousafzai
- What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
Clara Shih
- Social media isn’t a one-way broadcast; it’s a multiway opportunity for dialogue.
Anonymous
- Social media should improve your life, not become your life
Nationalism
Richard N. Haass
- Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
Rabindranath Taigore
- Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation- worship, is the goal of human history.
Andrew O’Hagan
- A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Sun Yat Sen
- This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive.
John F Kennedy
- Ask not what your country can do for you , ask what can you do for your country
Bob Marley
- Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life
Thomas Paine
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of
supporting it
Environment and Climate Change
Gandhi
- The earth, the air, the land & the water are not inherited from our forefathers but the loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us
- Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed
Ban ki – moon
- Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight.
Jay Inslee
- We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.
Bill McKibben
- Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet.
Pope Francis
- Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased levels of poverty.
Narendra Modi
- The choices that we make today will define our collective future. Let us all join together to beat plastic pollution and make this planet a better place to live.
Stephen hawking
- We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Robert swan
- The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
KR Narayanan
- We need to create pedestrian crossing on the Highways of
Globlisation
Franklin D Roosevelt
- A nation that destroy it soils destroy itself, Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air & giving fresh strength to our people
Albert Einstein
- I don’t know in what weapons the WW-3 will be fought, but 4th WW will be fought only through sticks & stones
Anonymous
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is Now
- There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We all are crew
- Nature provides us free lunch, but only if we control our appetites
Digitization
George Westerman
- When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when
done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.
Katharine Viner
- Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
Narendra modi
- The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Tim Ferriss
- In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite
interruption.
Science and Technology
Louis pasteur
- Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates
the world.
Brain Greene
- Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective.
Marthin Luther King Jr.
- We have guided missiles and misguided men.
David R.Brower
- What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
Garett Hardin
- People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.
War and peace
Adolf Hitler
- When diplomacy ends, War begins.
Amit ray
- Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Tony Benn
- All war represents a failure of diplomacy
Winston Churchill
- History is written by victors
Martin Luther King
- Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows
Albert Einstein
- I don’t know in what weapons the WW-3 will be fought, but 4th WW will be fought only through sticks & stones
Anonymous
- We are in a world in pieces, we need to be a world at peace
Terrorism
Anonymous
- Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred billion saves
- The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primary a battle of information
- If we destroy HR & rule fo law in response to terrorism, they have won
Violence
Nelson Mandela
- Violence has no voice
Gandhi
- An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind
International Relations, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
Fareed Zakaria
- Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
Hans J. Morgenthau
- International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
- A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.
Amit Ray
- International peace negotiations need more value creation than value claiming.
Dwight Eisenhower
- The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.
AB Vajpayee (Bharat ratna in 2014)
- You can change friends but not neighbors
Globalization
Kofi Annan
- It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Jose Angel Gurria
- We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.
Janez Drnovsek
- One of the fundamental questions of today’s world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
KR Narayanan
- We need to create pedestrian crossing on the Highways of Globlisation