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ThoughtForTheDay
We must learn to succeed in conditions of low fuel and energy prices. — Dmitry Medvedev ...
Integrity, transparency and the fight against corruption have to be part of the culture. — Angel Gurría ...
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. — BR Ambedkar ...
Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India. — Mahatma Gandhi ...
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorised. — Salman Rushdie ...
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton ...
Biotechnology is the key to solving many of the world’s most pressing problems. — Bill Gates ...
The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all. — Dwight D Eisenhower ...
A strong government should mean effective, fair administration — in other words, good governance. — Raghuram Rajan ...
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu ...
You can change friends but not neighbours. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...
The scourge of child sexual abuse must be addressed by society at large. — Pope Francis ...
A nation is enriched by the economic prosperity of its people. — Adam Smith ...
I'm sceptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centrepiece. — Jeff Bezos ...
When you see corruption being rewarded, you may know that your society is doomed. — Ayn Rand ...
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. — Jimmy Carter ...
Men are more easily goverened through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte ...
I’m not a conspiracy theorist — I’m a conspiracy analyst. — Gore Vidal ...
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. — Joseph Stalin ...
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt ...
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus ...
The caste system is not merely division of labour. It is also a division of labourers. — BR Ambedkar
The caste system is not merely division of labour. It is also a division of labourers. — BR Ambedkar ...
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is. — Isaac Asimov ...
For building stable peace, we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives. — Muhammad Yunus ...
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. — Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. — Thomas Jefferson ...
Poorly designed subsidies either do very little or actually make things worse for the poor. — Abhijit Banerjee ...
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. — Oprah Winfrey ...
Our silence and complicity, especially on the situation in Gaza, shame us all. — Desmond Tutu ...