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Quotes by Leader

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

"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."

"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."
Will,

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
Home,

"And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth."

"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."

"There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well."

"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

"One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change."

"We are the people who believe in Vasudeva Kutumbakam...we want the world to move ahead with peace and prosperity."

"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

"We have taken decisive steps to curb corruption. We removed discretion in allocation of key resources and moved to transparent auctions of mines, spectrum and FM radio licenses. We have plugged leakages through DBT."

"Politics can be done by keeping the poor poor. But freedom from poverty can only come by empowerment. We are empowering the poor to end poverty. When the poor are empowered, they become competent to alleviate poverty"

"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."

"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"This nation, our Government, our systems - they are all for the poor. Our aim is to empower the poor to fight poverty."

"Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"I contested elections on the issue of development. It's my conviction, it's my commitment. Youngsters of the country believe in development. And it is development that is the solution to all the problems."

"An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes."

"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."

"What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business."

"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north."

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
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