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Quotes by Leader

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"

"Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed."

"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion."

"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions."

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."

"In every sector of India's forward march, I see the U.S. as an indispensable partner. Many of you also believe that a stronger and prosperous India is in America's strategic interest. Let us work together to convert shared ideals into practical cooperation. There can be no doubt that in advancing this relationship, both nations stand to gain in great measure."

"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected"."

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."

"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."

"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."

"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."

"Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving."

"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."
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