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Education
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
―Nelson Mandela
“By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body, mind
and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning.”
– M. K. Gandhi
- Confucius
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our
life in harmony with all existence.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think.”
–Albert Einstein
–Will Durant
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer
devil.”
― C.S. Lewis
“What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right
education.”
– M. K. Gandhi
“Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is
best and lasting in India.”
– M. K. Gandhi
“If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.”
– M. K. Gandhi
“There is only one purpose in the whole of life — education. Otherwise what is the use of
men and women, land and wealth?”
– Swami Vivekananda
“Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.”
– Swami Vivekananda
"We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the
intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet"
— Swami Vivekananda
– Swami Vivekananda
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Gender Equality
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
― Maya Angelou
"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
“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
“Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all kinds of
oppression.”
— Nelson Mandela
“No country can every truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives
itself of the contribution of half its citizens.”
― Michelle Obama
“I raise my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. We
cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
― Malala Yousafzai
“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our
sons more like our daughters.”
― Gloria Steinem
Women
“The Day a Woman Can Walk freely on the Roads, That Day we Can Say that India
Achieved Independence.”
– M. K. Gandhi
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a
generation.”
–Brigham Young
"The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls"
— Michelle Obama
— Kofi Annan
"Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the
woman.”
— Corita Kent
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
— Mary Shelley
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have
achieved."
— B. R. Ambedkar
“I believe the rights of women and girls are the unfinished business of the 21st Century.
— Hillary Clinton
“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Hillary Clinton
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― MK Gandhi
“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”
–Dalai Lama
–Helen Keller
–Mahatma Gandhi
“Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.”
–Emile Zola
— Franklin Roosevelt
Change
- John F. Kennedy
“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Benjamin Disraeli
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.”
―Robert Frost
Inequality
“I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind
or another.”
- Amartya Sen
“Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further
enrichment of the opulent.”
- Amartya Sen
“A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so
many have so little.”
-Bernie Sanders
“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality,
oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to
be trodden by the mighty and powerful.”
-Dalai Lama
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who
have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Character
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power.”
— Abraham Lincoln,
“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”
- Mark Twain
Conscience
- Albert Einstein
- Sophocles
Poverty
- Nelson Mandela
— Kofi Annan
– Eli Khamarov
– Aristotle
“We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is
poverty and unemployment all around us.”
“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in the world, none of us can
truly exist.”
– Nelson Mandela
- Mahatma Gandhi
“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be
removed by the actions of human beings..”
- Nelson Mandela
Agriculture
“Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is
the foundation of all other industries.”
- E. W. Stewart
“No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing
a poem.”
- Booker T. Washington
Integrity
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful.”
- Samuel Johnson
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you
did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
- Brian Tracy
Environment
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it".
- Robert Swan
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are
doing to ourselves and one another".
- Mahatma Gandhi
"What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?"
- Henry David Thoreau
“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one
thing all of us share.”
“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something
today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
— Gaylord Nelson
— Ernest Hemingway
Sustainable Development
“Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?”
“There is no ‘Plan B’ because we do not have a ‘Planet B.’ We have to work and galvanize
our action.”
“There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky,
or the rain or the land.”
- Paul McCartney
- Marshall McLuhan
“Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.”
- Henrik Tikkanen
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quotes by Gandhi
Quotes by Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life
in harmony with all existence.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass
for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as
long as I live.
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following
of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
“Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”
“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long
way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”
“One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.”
“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.”
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
“While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.”
“Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming,
but vision with action can change the world.”
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
“Thinking is the capital, an enterprise is a way, and hard work is the solution.”
“The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise...
Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.”
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