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Quotes by Leader

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it."

"Afghan-India Friendship dam has not been built by bricks and mortar, but by the faith of our friendship and the valour of Afghans and Indians."

"India has now graduated from megawatts to gigawatts in terms of renewable energy production"


"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."

"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."

"The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians."


"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."


"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."


"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"Nothing is more satisfying than working day and night for the poor."

"A very unique feature of the Indo-American relationship is the critical role of the Indian-American community in the US economy. It is rare that emigrants from one nation, who become immigrants in another, enjoy such high respect and repute in both countries. Indian-Americans are a powerful cementing force in our growing economic and cultural ties."

"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

"Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the fires of justice. Let us be dissatisfied until they who live on the outskirts of Hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heap of history and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home. Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will betransformed into the bright tomorrows of quality integrated education."

"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."

"Be it the First World War or the Second World War, India never attacked other countries. We never attacked any country for conquering their territory. But our brave soldiers fought for others and sacrificed their lives in both the Wars. And, the world must recognise this."

"Only being an administrator & controller is not enough. Everybody, at every level, has to be an agent of change. Initiatives have succeeded when 'Jan Bhagidari' is embraced."

"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country."

"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."
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