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Quotes by Leader
"A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
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"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
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"Afghanistan's success is a deeply held hope and desire of every Indian. It comes from the love and admiration for Afghans in our hearts. We want to see your democracy strike deep roots; your people unite; and your economy prosper."
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"India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: ??? ?????? ?????? ????? ??????? Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides."
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"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
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"Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
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"If you judge people you have no time to love them."
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"We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today."
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"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism."
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"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
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"At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition."
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"There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
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"The country has 80 crore youth. They are below 35 years of age. If youth have the skill, they can change the destiny of this country. And we are laying stress on this."
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"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."
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"Never be so busy as not to think of others."
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"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."
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"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."
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"If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna."
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"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
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"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."
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"Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self assertive humble. ...truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis that reconciles the two."
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"'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?"
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
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"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
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"I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations."
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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt."
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"On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."
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"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."
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"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
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"We are the people who believe in Vasudeva Kutumbakam...we want the world to move ahead with peace and prosperity."
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