EDUCATION:

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
India is going to be the information power of world. (Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich dad, Poor
dad.)
Live every day as if it is your last day, but learn as if you are going to live forever. (Gandhi)

Literature- one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual invention

SCIENCE
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
INSPIRATION
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader.
John Quincy Adams
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to
inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
LINCOLN
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is
the real thing.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool
all the people all the time.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being
unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to
remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who
wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by
the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by
the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right
thing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs
of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
GANDHI:
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the
course of history.
CLEANLINESS
I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not
going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.
Jairam Ramesh

India and China- the twin civilizations with intellectual fire power (Amartya Sen)
Governance
Democratic government demands not only a parliamentary majority but also a
parliamentary minority- (Ivory Jennings. Current Context- Leader of opposition
issue.)
A great empire and little minds go ill together (Edmund Burke, Frontline quoted)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George
Orwell. Current context-CBI whistleblower)
Freedom is a celebration; independence is a challenge. Pranab in Independence
day speech.
In a democracy, good governance is exercise of power for efficient and effective
management of our economic and social resources for the well-being of the
people.

India is a harmonious and stable democracy in spite of its cultural and linguistic
diversities. (Dalai Lama )
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law.
(Montesquieu)
Religion:
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one
another (Jonathan Swift. Current context- Love Jihad controversy in India, ISIS/ShiaSunni in Middle East.)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Einstein)
All human history was a history of Violence. (The message in new booker prize
winner Narrow road to deep north).
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, but because of the
inactivity of the good people. (Swami vivekanand. Edmund Burke too made similar
quote.)
Without compassion, Peace cannot be sustained. (Satyarthi.)