ThoughtForTheDay

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 ...

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 ...