Quotes

Essay Topic: Education (8)

“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 is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it.” Aristotle

Education that does not mould the character is absolutely worthless. – Mahatma
Gandhi

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to the society
– Theodore Roosevelt

Density of a nation is shaped in its classrooms”- Kothari Commission 1966-68

Women

Mahbub-ul Haq, 'Development if not engendered is endangered'. 

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a
generation.” ― Brigham Young

There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless condition of women is improved. It is
not possible for bird to fly on only one wing.- Vivekanand

How important for us to recognize our heroes and she-roes”- Maya Angelou

Essay Topic: Science and Religion

“Science without Religion is lame and Religion without Science is blind” Einstein
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and
misguided men.” - Martin Luther King

Sarva dharma sama bhava (all religions lead to the same goal), which translates to an equal
respect for all religions
“I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.” — Sting,
famous Musician

Technology doesn’t change who we are, it magnifies who we are, the good and the bad- Tim Cook

Essay Topic: Democracy (5)

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people- Lincoln

”I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the
strong.” Mahatma Gandhi

Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.” -
Thomas Jefferson

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
- Plato

“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true

democratic spirit.”

Freedom

Where the head is held high

And mind is without fear
Where knowledge is free.
Where the world has not been broken into fragments.
Where the mind led forward by thee into ever widening thought and Action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country Awake!
- Rabindranath Tagore

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say
it. – Voltaire

“Violent means will give violent freedom.”- Gandhi

Justice Brandis words quoted by HR Khanna in ADM Jabalpur case-

“ Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the govt. purposes
are beneficient…. The greatest danger to liberty lies in insidious encroachment by men of
zeal, well-meaning but lacking due deference for rule of law”

Essay Topic: Materialism/Consumerism/Environment (5)

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth

“The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell- Edward Abbey!!

Essay Topic: Peace/Justice

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”- Gandhi

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”- Martin Luther

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

We can never make peace with outer world unless we make peace with ourselves.-
Buddha!!
World peace begins with inner peace- Dalai Lama

Essay Topic: Poverty/ Hunger

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Mahatma Gandhi

“There are people in the world, so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in
the form of bread.”- Gandhi

Poverty anywhere threat to prosperity everywhere. Kofi Annan, 7 th Secy general UN

Essay Topic: Corruption

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give
him power.- Abrahm Lincoln

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them
without doing anything”- Albert Einstein

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (10)

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonesty.”

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
The weak can never forgive. It’s an attribute of strong- Gandhi

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

The mind is everything. What you think you become. (Buddha)

“I…invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for
what in law is a deliberate crime, and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a
citizen” (Gandhi: NCM trial 1922)
“There is higher courts than courts of justice and that is conscience.”

Others/Miscellaneous

Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India,
representing India's urges, India's future in the making….symbolical of the changes that are
coming to India” Nehru, IIT Kharagpur Inauguration

If you can’t feed a hundred people- feed just one- Mother Teresa

“If you are offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”- Sheryl
Sandberg

"The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our
thoughts and emotions work."- Dalai Lama

General/Philosophical- ending the essay!

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go
But I go on forever
- Brook by Alfred Tennyson

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
- Neil Armstrong

“Dream is not what you see in sleep, [it] is the thing which doesn’t let you sleep” APJ
Abdual Kalam
If you can dream it, you can do it- Walt Disney

Arise, Awake and stop not until the goal is achieved) – Swami Vivekananda

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity- Albert Einstein

Hope is a good thing, may be the best of things and No good this ever dies- Andy-
Shawshank redemption

(Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya) From darkness to light

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (Whole world is one family)

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina (May all be Happy)

Sarve Santu Niramaya (May all be without disease)
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu (May all have well-being)
Maa Kaschit Dukh Bhagh Bhavet (May none have misery of any sort)

Adbul Kalam has said.

Where there is righteousness in the heart there is beauty in character,
Where there is beauty in character there is harmony in home
Where there is harmony in home there is order in nation
Where there is order in nation there is peace in world.

“The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall” –
Nelson Mandela

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Winston Churchill said, “ Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the
responsibility for changing them." Denis Waitley

Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all the time and fool all the
people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time,”