Quotes

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“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”

— Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

— Nelson Mandela

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize 1991, “Freedom From Fear” speech, which begins with the above quote.

“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”

— Mahatma Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress, 22 December 1921

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa (St Teresa of Kolkata)

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”

— Nelson Mandela

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I urge you to: Trudge not through life leaving ugly gashes, Tiptoe not through life leaving half-formed impressions, But tread gently, lovingly and purposefully Leaving graceful heart-prints.”

— Unity Dow, the Botswana High Court Judge

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Muriel Strode (a similar quote exists by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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