Quotes Monday, 3July 2017 23:35 pd 10. iL 12 13. ye. 15, 16. 17. 18. Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated- Martin Luther King Jr You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come- Victor Hugo. Out of a barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in most instant and perfect obedience. What can never grow out of itis power - Arendt. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun - Mao. Only when lions have historians, hunters will cease to be heroes - African proverb “The further a society drifts from the truth, the moreit will hate those that speak it."- George Orwell “Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them." - Jean-Paul Sartre “The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” - Mandela “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times | fell down and got back up again.” Mandela Steve Jobs — "Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do." Whatever happens, we have got, The Maxim gun, and they have not.” Hilaire Belloc “History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes,” as Mark Twain Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore | am.) - Rene Descartes ‘The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues- Rene Descartes Aaron Sorkin put it: "| am all for everyone having a voice; | just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done." Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. - Tagore We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality - Ayn Rand Gandhi- our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world, as in being ableto remake ourselves. Essay Topic: India India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own developmental model - Kalam. Essay Topic: Education “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learnt in school.” Einstein, “it isthe mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle “Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man.” Swami Vivekananda Education that does not mould the character is absolutely worthless. - Mahatma Gandhi “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at al.” - Martin Luther King “"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Brigham Young ‘The pen is mightier than the sword, unless your foe isilliterate- Reddit (haha) “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" Einstein Essay Topic: Science and Religion “all thinking men are atheists.” Ernest Hemingway “The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” Carl Sagan “Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind” - Einstein “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” ChristopherHitchens + “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” - Martin Luther King Essay Topic: Democracy + “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” Churchill + “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so much dangerous to the public welfare as the. apathy of a citizen in a democracy” Montesquieu + “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Abraham Lincoln yk+ “There cannot be daily democracy without daily citizenship.” Ralph Nader + "Lunderstand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi Yes “Democracy is not law of the majority but protection of the minority.” Albert Camus + Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.” - Thomas Jefferson + Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others - Winston Churchill, Essay Topic: Materialism/Consumerism/Environment + "The Earth does not belong to us: we belongto the Earth" Native American saying + “The world has enough for everyone's need but not enough for everyone's greed.” Mahatma Gandhi + Wedo not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children + Wenever know the worth of water till the well is dry, Essay Topic: Peace/Justice + “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” William Gladstone + "The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” Mahatma Gandhi + “There was never a bad peace or a good war.” Benjamin Franklin + “Injustice anywhere isa threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King + "War does not decide who is right but who is left.” Bertrand Russell. + Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (Let the whole world be prosperous and peaceful) yke+ Tolerance has never provoked a civil war, intolerance has covered the earth in carnage- Voltaire + Order cannot simply be ordained; to be enduring, it must be accepted as just - Kissinger + "Now | am become Death; the destroyer of worlds" - Oppenheimer quoting Gita after creating atomic bomb + You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist- Indira Gandhi + "Tknow not with what weapons World War Il will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Einstein Essay Topic: Judiciary + Yatho Dharma Thatho Jayaha: Where there is justice, there is victory. + Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws ~ Plato Essay Topic: Corruption/Inequality + As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in remaking the world but in remaking ourselves - Mahatma Gandhi + Confucius - Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance. + Buddha - Dharma is the foundation stone of good governance + "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, power." Lincoln + "Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society existence" Piketty. ehim ally unaware of its+ "Caste system is ascending scale of reverence and a descending scale of contempt", "graded inequality", as Ambedkar chose to put it. Essay Topic: Women + "Imeasure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved." - B, R. Ambedkar + "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." Virginia Woolf + “Oneis not born, but rather becomes, a woman” Simone de Beauvoir. Essay Topic: Free Speech + "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" George Orwell + "Ido not agree with what you haveto say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire + Thomas Jefferson “whether we should have a government without newspapers, oF newspapers without a government, | should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Essay Topic: Hunger + "Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. it claims millions of victims each year" - Lula Da Silva + “There are people in the world, so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread - Gandhi. + “Give bow! of rice to aman and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” Confucius Essay Topic: Technology + "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” Christian Lous Lange + Human spirit must prevail over technology - Albert Einstein Essay Topic: Terrorism yk+ "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke + "With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism" Malala Yousafzai Potential references: Changi + The Thucydides Trap is a theory proposed by Graham Allison who postulates that war between a rising power and an established power is inevitable: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Thucydides from "The History of the Peloponnesian War" The two key drivers allegedly being the rising power’s growing entitlement, sense of its importance, and demand for greater say and sway, on the one hand, and the fear, insecurity, and determination to defend the status quo this engenders in the established power, on the other. The past 500 years have seen 16 cases in which arising power threatened to displace a ruling one. 12 of these ended in war. + Cold War rivals wove an intricate web of mutual constraints around their competition that President Kennedy called “precarious rules of the status quo.”