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Quotes by Leader

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature"

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

"If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy."

"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."

"My mantra is Development". It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This can be achieved through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us."

"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."

"The foundation of today's knowledge economy is the quality of its school leavers. We have now decided that the quality of learning outcomes will be the Government's primary objective. Accordingly, we will allocate an increasing share of resources under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan to quality. These funds will be used to promote local initiatives and innovations to improve learning outcomes."

"If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."


"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."


"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."

"Without forgiveness, there's no future."

"Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal."

"The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect, it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had."

"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."

"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, thatperson isn't fit to live!"

"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."

"I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any."


"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
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