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All Quotes Collection
"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
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"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
46
"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."
42
"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
56
"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
50
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
46
"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."
40
"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
50
"I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times."
52
"The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
214
"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered."
85
"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
103
"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."
41
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
55
"The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India."
57
"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."
48
"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development."
73
"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."
45
"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."
46
"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them."
47
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."
109
"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."
51
"History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them."
63
"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."
53
"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
59
"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
69
"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."
59
"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act."
53
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
51
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
43
"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
45
"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."
50
"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
48
"American corporations hate to give away money."
85
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
47
"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way."
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