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Quotes by Leader

"A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country."

"We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides."

"The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise."

"Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."


"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines."

"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."

"I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed."

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

"The economic links between India and Switzerland countries are strong and vibrant. Many Swiss companies are household names in India. Ties of collaboration in trade, investment, science and technology and skill development benefit both our societies."

"I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more."

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."

"Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion."

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."

"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."

"Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path."

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

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

"World's keenness to engage with India has risen. In such times 'fear of unknown' can be an obstacle. Our diaspora can help overcome this."

"Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier."

"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."

"Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge."

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well."

"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."
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