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Quotes by Leader

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

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."

"Whenever we come across 'Viklang' person, our attention goes towards their disability but we do not notice the immense capabilities and strength they have to accomplish a task. And, that is why I urge everyone to use the word 'Divyang' instead of 'Viklang'."

"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."

"The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government."

"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something."

"France cannot be France without greatness."

"I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet."

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."

"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

"The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth."

"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."

"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."

"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."

"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."

"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."

"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."

"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."

"Love is the outreach of self toward completion."

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
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