POVERTY PEACE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT HEALTH SOCIAL MEDIA
GENDER EQUALITY SOCIAL DIVERSITY GOVERNANCE JUDICIARY TRUTH
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS GLOBALISATION DIVERSITY ETHICS
DIGITALIZATION DEMOCRACY CORRUPTION CONSUMERISM
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PERSONALITY
Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. (Kofi Annan)
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotle)
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)
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. (Plutarch, Greek historian)
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't. (Jeff Bridges)
The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is enough. (Dr. Wess Stafford, President Emeritus of Compass)
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. (Mother Teresa)
There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed. (Frank Buchman, Protestant evangelist)
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 too little. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest. (Nelson Mandela)
There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. (Mahatma Gandhi)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (John F. Kennedy)
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. (Muhammad Ali)
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher)
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. (William E. Vaughn, columnist)
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die. (Bono, Singer and Philanthropist)
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can’t just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. (Barack Obama)
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis. (Irene Khan, former Secretary-General of Amnesty International)
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. (Nelson Mandela)
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world. (Ban Ki-moon)
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)
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu. (Let the whole world be prosperous and peaceful)
If you want to end the war, then instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers. (Malala Yousafzai)
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi)
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. (Dalai Lama XIV)
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Education that does not mould the character is absolutely worthless. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. (Alexandra K. Trenfor)
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Martin Luther King)
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. (Barbara Jordan)
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Ben Franklin)
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. (Margaret Mead)
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)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle)
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. (Aristotle)
Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man. (Swami Vivekananda)
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self- respect. (A.P. J. Abdul Kalam)
Learning gives creativity, creativity leads to thinking, thinking provides knowledge and knowledge makes you great. (Dr. Abdul Kalam)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Maimonides)
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J. Harris)
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. (Solomon Ortiz)
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. (Abraham Lincoln)
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it’s just one, and it’s education. (Malala Yousafzai)
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.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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)
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)
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. (Leo Tolstoy)
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. (Chinese proverb.)
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. (Mahatma Gandhi)
To keep the body in good health is a duty, Otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. (Buddha)
If Wealth Is Lost, Nothing Is Lost; If Health Is Lost, Something Is Lost. (French Proverb)
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niramayah. It means “May All become Happy, May All be Healthy” (Upanishads)
Arogyam parmam bhagyam, swasthyam sarvarthasadhaanam. It means that Good health is the greatest blessing. Health is the means of everything.
Social media has played a key role in democratizing our discourse. (Narendra Modi)
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. (Mark McKinnon)
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. (Jon Ronson)
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. (Jim Morrison)
The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. (J.K. Rowling)
There are a lot of pros and cons to 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)
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress that women have achieved. (B. R. Ambedkar)
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. (Brigham Young)
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)
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)
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. (W. S. Coffin Jr.)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. (C. E. Hughes)
We may have different religions, different languages, and different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. (Kofi Annan)
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)
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. (Leo Tolstoy)
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. (Dalai Lama)
Transparency is the key to good-governance and e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance. (Narendra Modi)
Yatho Dharma Thatho Jayaha: Where there is justice, there is victory.
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)
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. (Benjamin Disraeli)
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)
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)
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts. (Mahatma Gandhi)
International politics, like all politics, is a power struggle. (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)
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. (Kofi Annan)
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.)
Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do. (Marco Bizzarri)
Diversity is a strength, not a weakness. (Antonio Guterres)
Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age. (Katharine Viner)
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)
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.(Mahatma Gandhi)
Democracy is not law of the majority but protection of the minority.( Albert Camus)
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power, but carries the ultimate responsibility. (Norman Cousins)
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)
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)
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. (Voltaire)
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in remaking the world but in remaking ourselves - Mahatma Gandhi
Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance.(Confucius)
Dharma is the foundation stone of good governance. (Buddha)
The worst disease in the world today is corruption. And there is a cure: transparency
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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)
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)
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. (Potter Stewart)
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. (Douglas Bader)
Always treat people as an end in itself, never as a means to an end. (Immanuel Kant)
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. (Elie Wiesel)
Most of us suffer from a kind of Myopia. We see only the things that fit in our beliefs about the world. (T. J. MacGregor)
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. (Confucius)
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. (CS Lewis)
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. (William James)
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Plato)
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. (Maya Angelou)
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. (Andrew Lansley)
Values are not what humanity is, but what humanity ought to be.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another , listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another. (Alfred Adler)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. (Plato)
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
It always seems impossible until it is done. (Nelson Mandela)
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. (Walter Elliot)
Courage to accept and dedication to improve are two keys to success.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practise any other virtue consistently. (Maya Angelou)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Winston Churchill)
You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. (Abraham Lincoln)
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. (Elie Wiesel)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln)
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. (John C. Maxwell)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. (Louis Pasteur)
We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
An unexamined life is not worth living.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
PLATO
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’; in fact we achieve ‘excellence’ by acting ‘rightly.’
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.