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Quotes by Leader

"India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world"

"Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship."

"Yes, KAlAmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you KAlAmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O KAlAmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them."

"We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river."

"The blood, sweat and tears of our people are mixed into this earth and have formed between us an eternal bond, written into the soil of this land...Bonds that remind us of ancient links between this region and India."

"We should not view our diaspora only in terms of 'Sankhya' but let us see them as 'Shakti'. In doing so, we can solve our problem of Brain Drain by converting it into Brain Gain."

"Maritime sector not only creates and facilitates economic activities; it also connects countries and civilisations.""

"While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made."

"We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."


"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."

"The human race is governed by its imagination."

"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."

"The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey."

"What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself."

"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."

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar, it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."
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