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INDIAN CULTURE.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
SOCIETY ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
MINORITIES .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
RELIGION AND CASTE SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2
POPULATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
WOMEN ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
CHILDREN .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
GENDER EQUALITY ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
SANITATION.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
URBANISATION ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
GLOBALISATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
PREAMBLE OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
JUDICIARY .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
POLITICS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
FEDERALISM ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
GOVERNMENT.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
SOCIAL WELFARE AND JUSTICE ....................................................................................................................................................................... 8
PRIVACY AND LIBERTY ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 8
EDUCATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
HEALTH....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
DIGITALIZATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMACY.............................................................................................. 10
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................................................................. 10
AGRICULTURE ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBANISATION ................................................................................................................ 10
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................................................................... 11
SECURITY ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
TERRORISM ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12
TALISMAN OF GANDHI ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
THE SEVEN SINS BY GANDHI ........................................................................................................................................................................... 13
EDUCATION AND VALUES................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
DEMOCRACY ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
MATERIALISM AND CONSUMERISM ............................................................................................................................................................ 15
TRUTH ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
WISDOM .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
WAR AND PEACE ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
NATIONALISM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 16
ADMINISTRATION ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 16
POWER....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
CORRUPTION .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
WORK ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG) .......................................................................................................................................... 17

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INDIAN CULTURE
• Religion like all other ideas deserve criticism, satire and our fearless disrespect - Salman Rushdie
• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific
discovery could have been made - Albert Einstein
• It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be
headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length - Helen Keller
• To know your future you must know your past - George Santayana

SOCIETY
• You must not leave faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if few drops of the ocean are dirty, the
ocean does not become dirty - Gandhi
• The test for civilisation is the way it cares for the helpless.
• A civilised society is one which tolerate centricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
• Our society is not a community but merely a collection of isolated family units.
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate menace to society.
• A gender equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist, where everyone can
be themselves.
• A society should never become a pond with stagnant water, without movement - Removal of social
evil practices.

MINORITIES
• The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to
be defenders of minorities - Ayn Rand

RELIGION AND CASTE SYSTEM

• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed
- Woodrow Wilson
• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our
own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness - Dalai Lama
• The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason -
Voltaire
• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men -
Martin Luther King
• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers - B. R. Ambedkar
• The caste system is opposed to the religion of the Vedanta. Caste is a social custom, and all our great
preachers have tried to break it down – Swami Vivekananda
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• There is no caste in blood – Edwin Arnold

POPULATION
• Some of these (Asian) countries, like India, far from needing a bigger population, would be better
off with fewer people - Jawaharlal Nehru
• In 1974, I led the Indian delegation to the World Population Conference in Bucharest, where my
statement that ‘development is the best contraceptive’ became widely known and oft quoted. I must
admit that 20 years later I am inclined to reverse this, and my position now is that ‘contraception is
the best development’ - Karan Singh, Indian politician

WOMEN
• You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a generation - Brigham
Young
• There is considerable evidence that women’s education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality
rates of children - Amartya Sen
• No tool for development than women themselves - Kofi Annan
• Where Women are honoured, divinity blossoms there, and wherever women are dishonoured, all
action remains unfruitful – Manusmrithi
• No country whose females were sunk in ignorance could ever make significant progress in
civilisation – Anonymous
• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved - B.R
Ambedkar
• There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish - Michelle Obama
• If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman - Margaret
Thatcher
• Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
• A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform - Diane
Mariechild.
• If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power
stronger than both, that of women - Malala Yousafzai (youngest Nobel Prize laureate)
• To educate girls is to reduce poverty - Kofi Annan (Former UN Secretary-General)
• Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world - Hillary Clinton
• Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world - Hillary Clinton

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• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute
strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then
woman is immeasurably man's superior – Mahatma Gandhi
• The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved
Independence – Mahatma Gandhi
• There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not
possible for the bird to fly on one wing – Swami Vivekananda

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the
way the world perceives that strength - G.D. Anderson
• Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom - Rosa Luxemburg
• The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more
caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all - Aung San Suu Kyi
• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to
be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential - Malala
Yousafzai
• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant moral
power, then woman is immeasurably superior man’s superior - Mahatma Gandhi
• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved - B.R.
Ambedkar
• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing
poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance - Kofi Annan

CHILDREN
• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children -
Nelson Mandela
• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall
have to begin with the children – M. K. Gandhi.
• Child labour perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social
problem -Kailash Satyarthi

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY

• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic
concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the centre of what
we do - Marco Bizzarri
• The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is
good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness - Antonio Guterres
• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together - Malcolm Forbes

GENDER EQUALITY
• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing
poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance - Kofi Annan
• A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can
be themselves - Gloria Steinem
• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is
everyone's responsibility - Ban Ki-Moon

POVERTY AND INEQUALITY

• Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair
economic structures that creates huge inequalities - Pope Francis
• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities - APJ Abdul Kalam
• There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value - Albert Camus
• Poverty is the worst form of violence - Mahatma Gandhi
• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest -
Nelson Mandela
• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed,
wealth is something to be ashamed of - Confucius
• Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.
• There are people in the world, so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.

SANITATION
• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet - Mahatma Gandhi
• Cleanliness is next to Godliness - Mahatma Gandhi
• Sanitation is more important than independence. Gandhi made cleanliness and sanitation an
integral part of the Gandhian way of living. His dream was total sanitation for all - Mahatma Gandhi

URBANISATION

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• Regarding urbanization, Gandhi expressed his views as follows: “It is a process of double drain from
the villages. Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. It can never
support 90 per cent of India's population, which is living in her 7,00,000 villages” (number of
villages in 1934) - Mahatma Gandhi
• In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead - Kushal Pal Singh
• Urbanization is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of
modernization - Manmohan Singh
• In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead - Kushal Pal Singh
• If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while
counting your money - Guy Mcpherson
• Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers - Mahatma Gandhi
• The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed - Mahatma Gandhi

GLOBALISATION
• It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity - Kofi
Annan
• We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an
increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable - Jose Angel Gurria
• One of the fundamental questions of today’s world is undoubtedly the question of equitable
globalisation - Janez Drnovsek
• Every aspect of Western culture needs a rational code of ethics, a rational code of ethics as a
precondition of rebirth - Ayn Rand
• The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes
out the accompanying culture - Peter L. Berger
• In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less - Jose Manuel Barroso
• Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of
freedom, my father, let my country awake – Rabindranath Tagore

PREAMBLE OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST
SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

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EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the
dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT,
ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION

JUDICIARY
• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble,
except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary - Andrew Jackson
• The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are
guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear - Rose Bird
• Where there is adherence to right action, there (alone) lies victory! - Supreme Court Motto
• Judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference - Aung San su Kyi
• Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice - Nelson Mandela

POLITICS
• Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance - Confucius
• In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics
itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia - George Orwell
• Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by
our shared values - and by changing our nation’s future - Pete Buttigieg
• Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it - Leo Tolstoy

FEDERALISM
• Diversity is not how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness - Ola Joseph
• The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land - Luna Leopold
• When the Panchayat Raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do -
Mahatma Gandhi
• The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of
one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced
the very definition of tyranny - James Madison
• Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and
one for science - John F. Kennedy

GOVERNMENT
• No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

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• If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to
become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
• A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly followed.
• The best government is one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

SOCIAL WELFARE AND JUSTICE

• Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all - DeRay
Mckesson
• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues
concerning the treatment of people are all the same - Albert Einstein
• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all
other courts - Mahatma Gandhi
• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People - Benjamin Disraeli
• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread
- Mahatma Gandhi
• It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver – Mahatma Gandhi
• If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation - Amit Kalantri
• Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright -
Benjamin Franklin

PRIVACY AND LIBERTY

• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety - Benjamin Franklin
• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life - Bob Marley
• Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves - Abraham Lincoln
• For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances
the freedom of others - Nelson Mandela
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of
liberty - John F. Kennedy
• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of
supporting it - Thomas Paine

EDUCATION
• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela
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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learnt in school - Mahatma Gandhi
• There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live - John
T Adams
• Children must be taught how to think, not what to think - Margaret Mead
• We must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content
of education - Amartya Sen
• Children must be taught how to think, not what to think - Margaret Mead
• Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge
makes you great - APJ Abdul Kalam
• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill - Wilbur Wright

HEALTH
• Health is wealth
• It is health which is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver
• Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any nation can have - Winston Churchill
• What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation -
Glenn Close
• Mental health is a continuum, and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum - Amy Morin
• Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing
freedom for the whole - Darrell Calkins

DIGITALIZATION
• When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when
done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar - George Westerman
• Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model
of the digital age - Katharine Viner
• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education,
language and income - Narendra Modi
• In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite
interruption - Tim Ferriss
• The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow - Bill Gates
• I dream of a Digital India where knowledge is strength - and empowers the People - Narendra Modi

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMACY

• Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology - Fareed Zakaria
• International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power - Hans J. Morgenthau
• A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged
intelligently - Zbigniew Brzezinski
• International peace negotiations need more value creation than value claiming - Amit Ray
• The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all - Dwight Eisenhower
• If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it
must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it - Norman Cousins
• Our diaspora provides a platform for a stronger relationship between India and ASEAN countries -
Sushma Swaraj
• India and US are natural allies - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

• If Conservation of nature goes wrong, nothing else will go right - M S Swaminathan
• GDP Measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile - Robert F. Kennedy
• Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable and Unethical -
Amartya Sen
• Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many Disasters -
Alan Moore
• We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them - Albert Einstein

AGRICULTURE
• If agriculture fails, everything else will fail - M S Swaminathan, Father of Green Revolution in
India
• Everything can wait, but not Agriculture – Jawaharlal Nehru (He said this in the context of the
Bengal Famine of 1942-43 and the acute food scarcity prevailing in the country in 1947.)
• Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy – M. K. Gandhi
• What we need is an “Evergreen revolution” in Agriculture – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBANISATION

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the
same fight - Ban Ki-moon
• We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that
can do something about it - Jay Inslee

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• Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet - Bill
McKibben
• Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired effect of a spiral of extreme climate
changes due to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased
levels of poverty - Pope Francis
• The choices that we make today will define our collective future. Let us all join together to beat
plastic pollution and make this planet a better place to live - Narendra Modi
• We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking
inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet - Stephen
Hawking
• The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it - Robert Swan
• Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth - Native American Proverb
• When disaster strikes, it tears the curtain away from the festering problems that we have beneath
them - Barack Obama
• The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody
involved - Richard Rogers
• We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children, so we need to make
it better and better.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which
illuminates the world - Louis Pasteur
• Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective - Brian Greene
• We have guided missiles and misguided men - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and
that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent - David R. Brower
• People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human
nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed -
Garett Hardin
• In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is
treatable - Kevil Lee Adam
• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Albert Einstein

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men -
Martin Luther King Jr
• The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both -
Carl Sagan
• The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow - Bill Gates
• Our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein
• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons - R. Buckminster Fuller
• Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master - Christian Lous Lange

SECURITY
• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding - R.W
Emerson
• A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation - Ronald Reagan

TERRORISM
• Terrorism is like a spurious growth in a beautiful garden, if it were cut it would come up again,
thereby it needs to be deeply uprooted.
• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death and destruction
- Bell Hooks
• The best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity i.e., hunger, poverty and
education
• Terrorism should not be seen from narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
• The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in
our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course,
military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
• We first fought in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and
terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
• Intelligence is the first law of defense against terrorism.
• Terrorism takes us back to the ages we thought were long gone.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY

• People are sheep. TV is the shepherd - Jess C Scott
• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed
like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish - W.H Auden
• Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for
everyone else - Glenn Greenwald
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• The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting
from each other - J.K. Rowling
• Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not
identities - Narendra Modi
• There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how
you have to be prepared for the negatives as well - Aubrey Peeples
• What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media
in a good way - Malala Yousafzai
• Social media isn’t a one-way broadcast; it’s a multiway opportunity for dialogue - Clara Shih

TALISMAN OF GANDHI
"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you,
apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may
have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he
[she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In
other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and yourself melt away."

THE SEVEN SINS BY GANDHI

• Wealth without work.
• Pleasure without conscience.
• Knowledge without character.
• Commerce without morality.
• Science without humanity.
• Religion without sacrifice.
• Politics without principle.

EDUCATION AND VALUES

• True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth -
Mahatma Gandhi
• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil - C. S.
Lewis
• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every
society, in every family - Kofi Annan
• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the
beauty and the youth - Chanakya
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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it - Aristotle
• Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self- respect - A.P. J.
Abdul Kalam
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society - Theodore Roosevelt
• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind - Ralph Waldo Emerson

DEMOCRACY
• I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong - Mahatma
Gandhi
• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy - B. R. Ambedkar
• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects;
because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal - Aristotle
• Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen’s
possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society - Fernando
Cardoso
• Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority - Albert Camus
• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it – Voltaire
• Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put nation ahead of politics - Atal
Bihari Vajpayee
• The ballot is stronger than the bullet - Abraham Lincoln
• The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong -
Lal Bahadur Shastri
• In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than
of blood - Shashi Tharoor
• If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts,
has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point
to India - Max Mueller
• I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong - Mahatma
Gandhi
• Children should be taught modernisation not westernisation – Unknown
• Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action - APJ Abdul
Kalam
• In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent
borders – Chanakya

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MATERIALISM AND CONSUMERISM

• A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing
with – Confucius
• To live fully, we must use things and love people, not love things and use people - Powell John
• The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed - Mahatma Gandhi
• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace - John
Lennon

TRUTH
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything - Mark Twain
• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it
is - Winston Churchill
• Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving -
James E. Faust
• If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme - Pablo
Picasso
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
• A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
• Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

WISDOM
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
• Three ways to learn wisdom:
1. By reflection, which is noblest
2. By imitation, which is easiest;
3. By experience, which is the bitterest.

WAR AND PEACE

• When diplomacy ends, War begins - Adolf Hitler
• Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts - Amit Ray
• It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One
must work at it - Eleanor Roosevelt
• All war represents a failure of diplomacy - Tony Benn
• Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - John F. Kennedy
• The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting - Sun Tzu
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• I don’t know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones - Albert Einstein
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace – William
Gladstone
• Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin – Eisenhower
• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed – Eisenhower
• War is like love, easy to begin but hard to stop.
• War is never a lasting solution to any problem - APJ Abdul Kalam

NATIONALISM
• Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult
economic and political conditions - Richard N. Haass
• Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship,
is the goal of human history - Rabindranath Tagore
• A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling
commonality - Andrew O’Hagan
• This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality
uses to try to survive - Sun Yat-sen

ADMINISTRATION
• If Ethics is poor at the top, the behaviour is copied down the organisation - Robert Noyce
• Dharma is the foundation of good governance - Buddha
• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity - Dalai Lama
• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique - James
Macgregor Burns
• With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even
the best laws can't help - Otto Von Bismarck
• Dharma is the foundation stone of good governance - Buddha

POWER
• Censorship is saying: ‘I'm the one who says the last sentence’.
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful - Malala
• Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

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• He who wishes as to be obeyed must know how to command.

• The most powerful force on Earth is love.
• Character is power.
• Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
• Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.
• Power has only one duty to empower the powerless.
• Man’s greatness lies in his power of noble thoughts.
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
• Belief has the power to create and power to destroy.
• Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing
yourself and others.

CORRUPTION
• Corruption is true enemy to development.
• The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

WORK
• Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get
• The privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG)

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